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Links to Wikipedia articles ending in period do not open in Wikipedia app
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Receive email including URL of extant Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Boxes_Etc. (note closing period)
  • Open email on Android device, which has the Wikipedia app installed
  • App rightly attempts to open link

[Needs to be tested also for other punctuation characters]

What happens?:

  • 404 error is displayed:

Code 404: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Mail_Boxes_Etc, title: Not found, detail: Page or revision not found.

(note absence of period in URL in error message)

What should have happened instead?:

  • Link should open

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Android 10

Event Timeline

@Pigsonthewing The link you posted in the description doesn't actually include the period as part of the link. Are you sure your email client actually parsed the link correctly in the email itself? (The email app may have "smartly" excluded the period from the link, thinking that it was the end of a sentence.)

@Pigsonthewing The link you posted in the description doesn't actually include the period as part of the link.

I pasted plain text. Any link you see is either made by Phabricator, or your browser.

But yes, that does appear to be the case. Apologies. Closing.