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Wiki You Tube issue (with strange URL characters?)

Topic last updated 05 Nov 2010, by Simon Ford. 1 reply
jim hamblen
05 Nov 2010

I seem to randomly get You Tube videos that will not show up on a Wiki page - just a blank space the correct size.

You tube assigns strange characters sometimes in the URL - is that the issue?

Here is one is the Wiki markup does not like at all:

http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkMoAF5B-4

So this line below on a Wiki page with {{...}} just generates a blank space:

{{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkMoAF5B-4}}

I guess I might be able to fix it by uploading the video until I get one that works.

 

Simon Ford
05 Nov 2010

Thanks Jim,

We'll get it fixed as part of enabling the wiki documentation everywhere.

For now, you could just create a link to the video using [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkMoAF5B-4]], although your solution is certainly an interesting workaround :P

Simon