Wikipedia:Parser bug reports: Difference between revisions

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'''Another linking error''' - My user page had some external links that were just the usual raw html://yaddayadda.com/etcetera and they used to work, but today they didn't. I wasn't because there was an asterisk or a parenthesis immediately before or after the URL. It doesn't seem to be because the URL ends in a / - I looked at other user pages to compare, and I '''cannot''' figure out why it wasn't working - gremlins? (Look back one or two levels in the history of my user page to see the formats - I've since forced it to work, by hiding the URL from the displayed page.) -- [[user:Marj Tiefert|Marj Tiefert]], Wednesday, May 15, 2002

:I believe that the current software is actively unlinking URLs like that. I edited a page that had an external link in it of the form you describe above, just a bare URL, and even though I didn't touch the external URL in question it came up unlinked after the edit. Try it out; find a page with an existing external link, edit it, and the link will be gone in the new version. This doesn't apply to links using the syntax <nowiki>[http://yaddayadda.com/etcetera name of link here]</nowiki>, however. Those remain intact through an edit. [[user:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]], Monday, May 20, 2002

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