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Asked: 2026-05-17T21:27:21+00:00

I’ve created a few templates on our WIKI and I have a basic understanding

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I’ve created a few templates on our WIKI and I have a basic understanding of how they work. I have one template I’m working on right now that refuses to behave, at least not the way I expect it to. The purpose of the template is to format a external link in a consistent way. The name of the template is “NSURL”

Here is the template markup:

[{{{1}}} Go…]

I’m using it like this:

{{NSURL | https://www.somesecreturl.com}}

When I use the template it prints it out just like the raw template markup. If I replace {{{1}}} with a static URL it works correctly:

[http://www.yahoo.com Go…]

—– Version Info —–

MediaWiki 1.15.1

PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny3 (apache2handler)

MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny1

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  1. Editorial Team

    @Steve K – here’s my code for an external link to a Wikipedia URL:

    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{{1|Main_Page}}} {{{2|{{{1|Wikipedia}}}}}}]

    Use:

    See also notes below regarding special characters like ? etc.

    Update: if you have Extension:StringFunctions you can use #replace in the second example. This means that the URL will replace spaces with underscores. So the code in the template will be:

    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{#replace:{{{1|Main_Page}}}| |_}} {{{2|{{{1|Wikipedia}}}}}}]

    and on the page you only need:

    • {{Wikipedia|Agile software development}}
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