Hi!
I also run an own Mediawiki, but the problem is that many browsers do not encode
the brackets correctly if you copy and paste the URL.
Actually only Firefox/Seamonkey seems to do it right.
For example:
The correct link URL for pasting into a mail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_%28disambiguation%29
The URL displayed in the browser, and copied by most browsers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(disambiguation)
The problem now is, that many mail clients (such as Outlook Web-App) won't
recognize the ) being part of the URL and just will open
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(disambiguation
on click - which does not work of course.
So this might be a failure of most browser or mail clients - but can this be
solved via Mediawiki?
I was thinking: Maybe this can be solved by having a plugin for sharing
the link. So that people who have troubles sending the link, can create
and share the link with this plugin.
E.g. like