Difference between revisions of "Template:MediaWiki URL rules"
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:URLs must begin with a supported [[URI scheme]]: <code>http://</code> and <code>https://</code> will be supported by all browsers; <code>irc://</code>, <code>ircs://</code>, <code>ftp://</code>, <code>news:</code>, <code>mailto:</code> and <code>gopher://</code> will require a plugin or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. | :URLs must begin with a supported [[URI scheme]]: <code>http://</code> and <code>https://</code> will be supported by all browsers; <code>irc://</code>, <code>ircs://</code>, <code>ftp://</code>, <code>news:</code>, <code>mailto:</code> and <code>gopher://</code> will require a plugin or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. | ||
| − | :If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters they will display and link incorrectly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by <code>%20</code>. To encode the URL, replace these characters: | + | :If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters they will display and link incorrectly. Those characters need to be [[percent-encoded]]. For example, a space must be replaced by <code>%20</code>. To encode the URL, replace these characters: |
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: 5em" | {| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: 5em" | ||
! sp !! " !! ' !! < !! > !! [ !! ] !! <nowiki>|</nowiki> !! } | ! sp !! " !! ' !! < !! > !! [ !! ] !! <nowiki>|</nowiki> !! } | ||
Revision as of 04:34, 9 December 2012
- URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme:
http://andhttps://will be supported by all browsers;irc://,ircs://,ftp://,news:,mailto:andgopher://will require a plugin or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. - If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters they will display and link incorrectly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20. To encode the URL, replace these characters:
| sp | " | ' | < | > | [ | ] | | | } |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %20 | %22 | %27 | %3c | %3e | %5b | %5d | %7c | %7d |
- Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; but unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; but an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.
Template documentation[create]| Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |
