Aphrodite Goddess of Love - I can't get the Wikitext formatting to work

you want to bold the link, not the text of the link. Put the quotes around the brackets.

I think it is the https

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology) Venus] (mythology)

It's the right paren. Try replacing it with an underscore.

No I can't get it to link.

That right paren is always a problem in Geni's wikitext. See what I did to fix it.

One of the curators told me it was as easy as substituting an underscore, but clearly that didn't work. Sorry for the bad advice.

Add a trailing underscore, that fixes it. There's also the special character %29 (I think).

Erica, I tried the trick of adding the trailing underscore. Didn't work, so I"m back to my old strategy.

trailing underscore worked for me when I tested it:

* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)_ Venus (mythology)]'''

Difference in browsers?

No, I see. You are adding the underscore after the right paren. I was replacing the right paren.

Got me! Ask Private User. :)

Sorry cross posted. Correct, add the trailing underscore, don't replace it. Bjørn can explain why Geni breaks on this.

By the way - Aphrodite Goddess of Love is your 101st great grandmother!

Probably still easier for me personally to remember %29 because I'm an old guy who learned html in the ancient days ;)

I use HTML everyday but you've got me here.

I'm just happy you fixed it * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology%29 '''Venus (mythology)''']

Bill, I'm thinking of )

Agrippa Silvius ., 10th King of Alba Longa it works here

Adding _ to the end of the URL is probably just luckily browser dependent because you add an extra character to the URL, which is stripped off when the URL fails as it does when it is a / and tries again.

The problem is the () which are invalid URL characters and have to be properly encoded, ( = %28 and ) =%29. You see the () in the browser address field because the browser tries to make it readable for you, but the URL used is sent as %28 and %29. Since the wikitext parser is not a browser that make those tricks, the URL in an about-me or project have to be as it is sent, - i.e. with invalid characters escaped.

Perfect!

Team Work

Yes team work is good when it works one of many forgien misunderstood concepts geni can improve on..

Why is "Aphrodite / Venus" Venus being of the focuses of my question here. The wife of Wife of Butes the Argonaut; Phaethon; Zeus; Hermês; Hephaestus; Adonis; Anchises; Ares; Dionysus God of Wine and Poseidon

She was the Greek equivalent of Aphrodite
Not only that, but Venus was a Roman goddess wife to Mars and Vulcan

Why has this site insisted on combining the two Roman and Greek mythology as the same people ... Do you not understand the meaning of equivalent?

Equivalent meaning "a person or thing that is equal to or corresponds with another, similar, parallel, analogous, comparable, corresponding, correspondent, interchangeable."

in other words Venus is Roman whereas Aphrodite is Greek

Aphrodite was married to "Consort Hephaestus, Ares, Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Adonis, and Anchises"

Venus was married to "Consort Mars and Vulcan"

This site has a roman "Romulus" as the son of Son of Ares and Rhea Silvia,

Rhea Silvia was the wife of "Mars" a roman not even mentioned as Ares wife.
Mars was the equivalent to Ares but not Ares at all .Please correct this site.

Roman mythology adapted the myths from the Greek mythology

That does not mean Mars and Ares were one in the same.