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URLs must begin with a supported [[URI scheme]]. <code>http://</code> and <code>https://</code> will be supported by all browsers; however, <code>ftp://</code>, <code>gopher://</code>, <code>irc://</code>, <code>ircs://</code>, <code>mailto:</code> and <code>news:</code> may require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. [[IPv6]] host-names are currently not supported. |
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If URLs in [[Wikipedia:Citation_templates#Examples|citation template parameters]] contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be [[percent-encoded]]. For example, a space must be replaced by <code>%20</code>. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with: |
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! sp !! " !! ' !! < !! > !! [ !! ] !! <nowiki>|</nowiki> !! } |
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!scope="row"| Character |
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!scope="col"| space |
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!scope="col"| " |
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!scope="col"| ' |
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!scope="col"| < |
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!scope="col"| > |
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!scope="col"| [ |
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!scope="col"| ] |
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!scope="col"| { |
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!scope="col"| <nowiki>|</nowiki> |
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!scope="col"| } |
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!scope="row"| Encoding |
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| %20 || %22 || %27 || %3C || %3E || %5B || %5D || %7B || %7C || %7D |
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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.<noinclude> |
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{{documentation}} |
{{documentation}} |
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</noinclude> |
</noinclude> |
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Latest revision as of 23:50, 9 March 2022
URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme. http:// and https:// will be supported by all browsers; however, ftp://, gopher://, irc://, ircs://, mailto: and news: may require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported.
If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by %20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
| Character | space | " | ' | < | > | [ | ] | { | | | } |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encoding | %20 | %22 | %27 | %3C | %3E | %5B | %5D | %7B | %7C | %7D |
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.
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