Template:MediaWiki URL rules

Certain characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by %20. For search engines, spaces might need to be replaced with an underscore _ or plus sign +. Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded.

sp	"	'	<	>
%20	%22	%27	%3c	%3e

[	]	{	|	}
%5b	%5d	%7b	%7c	%7d

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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.

Unencoded apostrophes are parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.

DPL Special Characters

DPL escape character	Mediawiki character	Typical use
»	>	Call another MediaWiki extension into a parameter of a DPL call
«	<
²{	{{	Call a template within the 'article loop' of DPL. This is especially useful for nesting DPL calls (DPL recursion)
}²	}}
¦	|
¶	newline	Inserts a line break into DPL's wikitext output, to allow proper parsing of first-character syntax (such as * # : ;)
\n	newline