[Mediawiki-l] Re: External links rendered in parens

Fri Nov 18 21:09:34 UTC 2005

Wolfe, Jeff wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having a weird problem all of a sudden, and it's intermittent (it seems)
> to boot!  I've had two users report that external links are rendered with
> the external link in parens.  It looks like this:
> 
> Given: [http://some.external.site <http://some.external.site>  my text to
> show]
> Renders in browser:  my text to show (http://some.external.site
> <http://some.external.site> 
> 
> For those that have the problem, it appears after a ctrl-f5 and has only
> shown up in Firefox.  We recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.0, and did not
> have any reports like this before the upgrade.  We came from 1.4.10.
> 
> Any ideas?  Is it possible that this is not a MediaWiki issue?  I have not
> yet been successful at getting a user to send me the page source when they
> see this behavior, so I'm not sure if it's bad browser mojo or not.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff

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