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Having a problem linking to a page

when ever I put in this link it changes the link to

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Yo......

cant even get it to work here. Im trying to link here

www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here's_Why...

you can only link without the https:/

I end up with this

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Edit/Don't_P...

not sure why but I had to place the link address without it being able to link. this is the post Im working on or was working on

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/3042...

Answer this question I have this problem too

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Hmm, I'll take a look! If you could email me the exact link that you're trying, it would help out. kyle at ifixit.

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@kyle The exact link is

www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here's_Why...

I just didnt put in the https and it works

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You can also escape wiki parsing with [raw]...[/raw] tags. The target URL was https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don't_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here's_Why..., but it was parsed as https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don%27t_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here%27s_Why, a page that doesn't exist (note the missing periods at the end). The problem is the trailing periods, which the link parser won't recognize as part of a link because it's more common to want to put punctuation like a comma or a period directly after a link than it is to have a link that ends with punctuation.

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We have some official linking syntax that requires the http in front. There are a lot of weird urls out there and trying to automatically figure them out is very difficult, so we require a specific format to generate the link automatically. The url you're linking to is odd because it has lots of weird punctuation.

We have a direct way of telling the parser it's a link and that requires a [link] tag.

[link|www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don%27t_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice._Here%27s_Why...] should get you the link you wanted.

http://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Don%27t_Put_Y... seems to work for me.

EDIT: It's intended. Punctuation at the end of a url doesn't get pulled into the auto-generated link because we actually want the punctuation in the sentence more often than at the end of a link.

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