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Watchlist email notifications not parsing full page url
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This comes from VTRS ticket #2022042210000838.

emails received when notifying users that articles on their watchlist have been edited are not parsing the full url if the url contains brackets.

e.g. a notification relating to Talk:Stonewall (charity) should be parsing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stonewall_(charity) instead it is not passing the part in brackets and the resulting email only has a hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stonewall

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Watchlist notification emails are plain text, so it’s up to the user’s email software to convert URLs into links. Some email software are better, some are worse, some may not convert URLs into links at all. Until we have HTML support (T15303), I don’t think there’s much we can do about it (except for asking the user to use a different email program, but that’s not nice…).