Special:Version: License with URL is wrapped with another URL
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	Tue, Jul 28, 11:23 AM

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Description

Summary

The Special:Version page wraps the license for extensions in a URL to Special:Version/License/<name> where the name is the extension. However, if the license name includes a URL this causes a a tag to be wrapped inside of an a tag which isn't valid HTML

Steps to reproduce

Install an extension that uses a URL in its license (such as https://gitlab.com/organicdesign/TreeAndMenu/-/blob/63673e85634882bd4b9b97902eda5c86052e95ee/extension.json#L10)
Load Special:Version
See that the license HTML has the URL in the license wrapped inside the link to Special:Version/License/<name>

Acceptance criterion

Treat the license name as text and not wikitext

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	SpecialVersion: Don't parse license-name as wikitext	Dreamy Jazz	mediawiki/core	master	+1 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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Dreamy_Jazz created this task.Tue, Jul 28, 11:23 AM

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Change #1318691 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialVersion: Don't wrap license with URL with another URL

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1318691

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Change #1318691 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialVersion: Don't parse license-name as wikitext

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1318691

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