Wiki links that don't work

Started by Private User on Thursday, August 1, 2013
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If a Wiki link includes ( ) in the address they do not work if incorporated in a name link. There are other punctuation symbols that do the same as I discovered when trying to link names to the Olympic projects last year. I have pointed this out before - but it seems that there is no way around it - the links just have to remain as they are

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_(journalist)

cannot be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_(journalist) John Simpson] as it will be presented as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_(journalist) John Simpson

Any thoughts anyone?

You have to encode the () using proper URL encoding, i.e use %29 instead of )

Yay!!! Thank you Bjorn!!!

Is there a list somewhere of the codes for other punctuation marks Private User

Excellent - thank you @Bjorn

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