Brion VIBBER wrote:
The old software knew that 99.9% of the time humans
don't _really_ mean
it when they put a comma, period, or other such item of punctuation
immediately after a URL, but that these are rather intended as, well,
punctuation.
The new phase III software trusts us more; URLs that are followed
immediately by punctuation (period, comma, paren, semicolon, etc) now
include this punctuation in the hyperlink, which leads to a lot of
broken external links where URLs are put casually into text,
particularly on talk pages.
Bug or feature? You decide!
[...]
So far the votes are tied 2-2:
Crop final punctuation from links: Brion, Tony
Include final punctuation in links: Lee, Jan
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)