Author: nilbek
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example e-mail
Links on emails are broken... Email is in English, I think bug is clear...
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Severity: minor
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- bz38265
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- T50940: Punctuation like ".", "?" and "!" at the end of page title in links not interpreted as part of the URL by various applications
T28556: Auto-redirect when URLs have trailing punctuation added/removed by auto-linkers
T267413: URL's ending in ) don't get the ) added to hyperlinks in emails
T207405: "Wiki ... page xyz (xyz) has been changed" emails link to "xyz (xyz" and show a non existing page
T163314: Some email clients don't consider the colon in "Special:ConfirmEmail" as part of a URL, so it becomes a broken link
T135956: Escape parentheses in WDQS URL - Mentioned Here
- T13056: Closing bracket skipped in emailed links
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Which email client is that?
Could you attach such an email here as an attachment, please?
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nilbek wrote:
I'm using Outlook (live.com) as a client and as I know it is one of top clients in emailing.
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Basically what nilbek is suggesting is that brackets should be URL encoded in email links. That seems sensible to me, so I'll reopen pending further discussion.
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So I think this would be considered a bug with "Outlook (live.com)", and I'm not sure where to file an upstream bug for that?
Thunderbird email (shown below) and Gmail's website, both link the part of the string in brackets correctly.
So I think this would be considered a bug with "Outlook (live.com)", and I'm not sure where to file an upstream bug for that?
If we were to change the default URL encoding for all sent links with brackets,
so that instead of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)/sandbox%C4%8Di%C4%87_(test)/Logo
we received a link to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)/sandbox%C4%8Di%C4%87_%28test%29/Logo
that would make links with brackets harder to read for everyone that uses an email client that renders the links properly. I'm not sure if that is worth it, in balance.
However, @Dispenser has been putting together some great related research at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/Automatic_linking_problems so he might be able to comment on the more technical aspects/limitations, or provide better long-term recommendations?
See also: the since-resolved T13056: Closing bracket skipped in emailed links - I'm not sure if we just need to add < and > per https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/24291/ ?
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General advice: Append a _ when page name is terminated by . or ) or similar.
- Then, after _, add a space or terminate.
- When the system (many are recognizing and automatically linking URL) is identifying start of URL at http: and termination, they interprete . or ) and more as surrounding punctuation, not part of URL, not included in target.
- If our URL is terminated by _ that one is taken as last character and part of generated link, if a space is following and will break URL identification.
- If any wiki server is receiving _ that is taken as space, and will be stripped since there are no spaces at the end of page names etc.