https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17182
Summary: Auto URL linker in API formatted output doesn't match
Wikipedia articles with parens
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&sear
ch=Neptune&limit=50&format=xmlfm
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Wikipedia URLs frequently contain parenthetical bits in them from article
disambiguation markers. The automatic URL highlighting in the API's jsonfm and
xmlfm output doesn't handle these, for instance this bit:
<Url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Neptune_(1797)</Url>
gets formatted to:
<span style="color: blue;"><Url></span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Neptune_";>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Neptune_</a>(1797)<span
style="color: blue;"></Url></span>
cutting off the "(1797)" from the link. Autolinker should be a bit friendlier
to Wikipedia here; at a minimum, standard heuristics would allow for accepting
the parenthetical as long as it's opened within the link. Alternately, since
URLs here are generally standalone rather than part of text, it could just
expand the link all the way until an illegal character appears such as " or <.
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