On many online systems (email interfaces, forums, social networks, CMS's), URLs
with brackets and apostrophes break very often. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin'_Alive
If this URL is posted to Facebook, Facebook will render the URL link as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin
Similarly links with brackets will break on different systems. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Roberts_(historian)
This doesnt break on Facebook but it breaks in this very Yahoo email interface
that I'm using right now (their HTML editor) and it renders the link as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Roberts_(historian
So its a very common problem and because there are so many page titles with
these characters, there are likely thousands of links that break every day from
Wikipedia, other wikis and other websites.
We know ofcourse its not the fault of Mediawiki because this is a URL-related
problem that falls under the responsibility of the people who program the
interfaces that produce the links, but - what can be done about this?
A few times I've contacted the systems to let them know they should take care
of links with apostrophes and brackets but there's just too many systems and
sadly, they dont follow any kinds of standards when it comes to URL link
rendering, and they do their own thing.
Erik
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