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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.
This template is used in MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-URL, and on approximately 405,000 pages, or roughly 1% of all pages. Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user ...
When MediaWiki was created, it was typical for wikis to require text like "WorldWideWeb" to create a link to a page about the World Wide Web; links in MediaWiki, on the other hand, are created by surrounding words with double square brackets, and any spaces between them are left intact, e.g. [[World Wide Web]]. This change was logical for the ...
MediaWiki – the software which runs Wikipedia – sets this to the target page name (without any section indication) if it's a wikilink, the page name with prefix if it's an interwiki link, and the link address if it's an external link.
A permanent link (or permalink) is a link to a specific version of a wiki page.Normal links always lead to the current version of a page, but the permalink leads to the text as it was at the time; the text does not include any edits made since.
Like all pages on the World Wide Web, the pages delivered by Wikimedia's servers have URLs to identify them. These are the addresses that appear in your browser's address bar when you view a page.
The MediaWiki software, which drives Wikipedia, will interpret all the possible URL characters correctly; see Spaces, underscores, and character encoding, below. But with pages in the revision-history database, URLs are different, and only the full URL can be linked; the URL includes the page name, but also an oldid value, in the permanent and ...
MediaWiki software detects URI schemes and/or filename extensions to create a link; thus links without a URI will not have an external link applied. MediaWiki does not attempt to detect any part of the URL to create a link, such as www, which many websites do not use in the URL.