Template:MediaWiki URL rules
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- 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. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. - URLs containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20
. To encode the URL, replace these characters:
sp | " | ' | , | ; | < | > | ? | [ | ] | \ | . | : | ! | ? | ) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
%20 | %22 | %27 | %2c | %3b | %3c | %3e | %3f | %5b | %5d | %5c | %2e | %3a | %21 | %3f | %29 |
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