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I was expecting template:URL would wrap the long URL inEMBiology, does anyone know why it doesn't? currently the infobox occupies a large fraction of the page width. ~thanks.fgnievinski (talk)02:05, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fgnievinski:EMBiology doesn't use{{URL}}. If you are talking about previewing a version which does use{{URL}} then what is your browser? In my Firefox, it already wraps now without{{URL}}. In Edge it doesn't wrap now but it wraps in a preview with{{URL}}.PrimeHunter (talk)02:25, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: thanks for your assistance.EMBiology usestemplate:infobox bibliographic database which usestemplate:website which redirects totemplate:url which callsmodule:URL. Shouldn't the latter insertHTML wbr to assist browsers in breaking a long URL? BTW, I'm using Chrome.fgnievinski (talk)17:56, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fgnievinski:template:infobox bibliographic database does not usetemplate:website. Why do you think that it does? If you saw code like{{{website}}} with three curly brackets then it means the template has a parameter|website=. A template call has two curly brackets like{{website}}. The documentation atTemplate:Infobox bibliographic database#Usage says| website = <!-- use {{URL|example.com}} --> and| titles = <!-- use {{URL|example.com}} -->. That means an article using the infobox can place a url in{{URL|...}}.EMBiology doesn't do that.PrimeHunter (talk)18:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: I just noticed this was changed a few years ago (link). Do you know what's the best practice in other templates? are users expected to wrap bare URLs in the the URL template or do templates do the wrapping automatically as a courtesy to users? and is template URL safe to abuse when it's input to itself? I ask because nowtemplate:infobox bibliographic database has a mixture of usage patterns. thanks for your help.fgnievinski (talk)19:16, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fgnievinski:{{URL}} requires a raw url.{{URL| {{URL|http://example.org}} }} or{{URL|[http://example.org website]}} fails.{{URL}} is from before MediaWiki gotmodules. The template language has very limited string processing.{{URL}} is now implemented byModule:URL and it would be possible to test the parameter and do nothing if it's not a raw url. Infoboxes with displayed website parameters generally require the caller to add{{URL}} for improved formatting.PrimeHunter (talk)19:45, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: thank you, I've inserted{{url}} inEMBiology which remedied the large infobox width. any suggestions of bots which could wrap bare URLs in infoboxes?fgnievinski (talk)20:50, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fgnievinski: Bot tasks need approval. You could post toWikipedia:Bot requests. Website parameters still work without{{URL}} so there might be some opposition. You could also make searches likehastemplate:"Infobox bibliographic database" insource:"titles = http" and work on it yourself, maybe withAutoWikiBrowser if you know it, but it's probably too much work for more common infoboxes.PrimeHunter (talk)21:28, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bot requested, thanks for your assistance so far:Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Use_template:url_in_calls_to_infobox_bibliographic_database.fgnievinski (talk)14:20, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox bibliographic database is only used in 139 articles and many of them don't have the issue. This is so little by bot standards that I expect a request to be rejected when it's only for that infobox, but maybe somebody will just do it with AutoWikiBrowser.PrimeHunter (talk)15:21, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thisedit request toModule:URL has been answered. Set the|answered= or|ans= parameter tono to reactivate your request.

Hello, the following code may be removed:

-- Handle URLs from Wikidata of the format http://url=mw.ustring.gsub(url,'^[Hh][Tt][Tt][Pp]([Ss]?)://','http%1://')

Refs past discussions:

• Template talk:URL/Archive 1#Import URL from Wikidata
• d:Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/09#URL datatype is here

According tophab:T56312, this bug (from the early ages of wikidata) has been fixed since then.

Od1n (talk)08:59, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Edited.P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 18:58, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Template:URL is designed to display the "www" as part of the link displayed and is clear that "Parameter 2 ({{URL|url name|optional display text}}) is deprecated"; I certainly don't see any reason to manually remove the "www" using parameter 2. Is there any reason to make edits such asthis one, one example of many, whose only purpose is to trim the "www"? There wasthis discussion from 2020 that leaned against removal of the "www". Does this still stand and if so should there be a clearer admonition in Template:URL discouraging the practice?Alansohn (talk)17:21, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would describethat edit as mildly negative, not helpful. It made the displayed URL longer, wrapping it in my display. The previous, shorter URL did not wrap. Since|2= is deprecated, a better edit would have been to remove "www" from|1= while removing|2=, after checking that the resulting URL worked, of course. –Jonesey95 (talk)21:18, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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