title: Prevent URL-encoding of characters in link in MediaWiki
body: <p>I.e.: <strong>How to suppress substitution/replacement of characters with its html entities in a MediaWiki link?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I need to insert a link looking like this, pipes (<code>|</code>) included, into a MediaWiki article:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.somesite.asdf/#|param1|param2|param3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The target site does not accept <code>%7C</code> or <code>&amp;#124;</code> as pipe-substitutes in its URL. Ergo, the following URLs are invalid:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.somesite.asdf/#%7Cparam1%7Cparam2%7Cparam3
  http://www.somesite.asdf/#&amp;#124;param1&amp;#124;param2&amp;#124;param3
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>When I type the link into the MediaWiki-article like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.somesite.asdf/#|param1|param2|param3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... it results in a link pointing to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://www.somesite.asdf/#%7Cparam1%7Cparam2%7Cparam3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>, which is not valid.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>