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6. The usual Wikipedia link problem is with parentheses

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:19 AM

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The DU software can't cope with those directly in link URLs, and Wikipedia uses them for disambiguation.

So the way to fix it is to use " %28 " for " ( ", and " %29 " for " ) ". These mean the ASCII codes for the symbols (in hexadecimal).

So
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)
doesn't work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_%28Labour_Party_leader%29
does.

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