[Wikipedia-l] [Fwd: [ wikipedia-Bugs-584804 ] URL followed by punctuation->broken link]

[Neil Harris]

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 7/24/02 5:06 PM, "Brion VIBBER" <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>Brion VIBBER wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Bug or feature? You decide!
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>>>You can respond by visiting:
>>>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411192&aid=584804&group_id=3
>>>4373
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>>So far the votes are tied 2-2:
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>>Crop final punctuation from links: Brion, Tony
>>Include final punctuation in links: Lee, Jan
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>>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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>Crop.
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I vote for punctuation cropping, too.

Neil