JoshuaZ comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 May 2010 06:22:33AM *  1 point [-]

For what it is worth, the Wikimedia foundation doesn't like people using "wiki" for Wikipedia. Most Wikipedians don't like it either. And neither does Wikipe-tan as she makes clear here

Edit: Apparently the software interprets a closing parenthesis in a URL as the end of the URL string. This is an unfun bug. Using a short url to avoid the problematic parsing.

Comment author: ata 07 May 2010 06:28:21AM *  2 points [-]

I think you can backslash-escape parentheses in URLs to avoid that bug (or that unexpected-but-correct-according-to-the-spec behaviour, rather).

Testing it: blah