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(Remove formatting text as small. Having the final paragraph as small text is distracting. It is not consistent with the formatting elsewhere and the issue is not of lesser important than any other mentioned.)
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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; however, <code>ftp://</code>, <code>gopher://</code>, <code>irc://</code>, <code>ircs://</code>, <code>mailto:</code> and <code>news:</code> will require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. [[IPv6]] host-names are currently not supported.
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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; however, <code>ftp://</code>, <code>gopher://</code>, <code>irc://</code>, <code>ircs://</code>, <code>mailto:</code> and <code>news:</code> may require a plug-in 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, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be [[percent-encoded]]. For example, a space must be replaced by <code>%20</code>. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
 
:If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be [[percent-encoded]]. For example, a space must be replaced by <code>%20</code>. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
 
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: 5em"
 
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: 5em"
! sp !! " !! ' !! < !! > !! [ !! ] !! <nowiki>|</nowiki> !! }
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! sp !! " !! ' !! < !! > !! [ !! ] !! { !! <nowiki>|</nowiki> !! }
 
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|-
|| %20 || %22 || %27 || %3c || %3e || %5b || %5d || %7c || %7d
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|| %20 || %22 || %27 || %3c || %3e || %5b || %5d || %7b || %7c || %7d
 
|}
 
|}
 
:Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.<noinclude>
 
:Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.<noinclude>
 
{{documentation}}
 
{{documentation}}
 
</noinclude>
 
</noinclude>

Latest revision as of 10:07, 14 January 2016

URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme. http:// and https:// will be supported by all browsers; however, ftp://, gopher://, irc://, ircs://, mailto: and news: may require a plug-in 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, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by %20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
sp " ' < > [ ] { | }
 %20  %22  %27  %3c  %3e  %5b  %5d  %7b  %7c  %7d
Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.
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