MediaWiki Template for external URL

Question

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

Answer 1

@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:

• {{Wikipedia|Agile}} gives Agile
• {{Wikipedia|Agile_software_development|Agile software development}} gives Agile software development

See also notes below regarding special characters like ? etc.