We have an internal company wiki. The wiki engine being used is MediaWiki, the wiki engine that runs Wikipedia. Some of it contains IT stuff.

One of the things i want want to have are hyperlinks to the various virtual machines. An example of a command, as it needs to run, is:

vmrc://solo.avatopia.com:5901/Windows 2000 Server

My first thought was to convert the URL into a link:

[vmrc://solo.avatopia.com:5901/Windows 2000 Server]

But the content renders literally as above: with the square brackets and all. Testing with other URL protocols:

[http://solo.avatopia.com]
[ftp://solo.avatopia.com]
[ldap://solo.avatopia.com]
[vmrc://solo.avatopia.com]

Only the first two work, and are converted to hyperlinks. The other two remain as liternal text. How can i add URLs to MediaWiki powered documentation?

Original Question

We have an internal company wiki. The wiki engine being used is MediaWiki, the wiki engine that runs Wikipedia. Some of it contains IT stuff.

One of the things i want want to have are hyperlinks to the various virtual machines. An example of a command, as it needs to run, is:

\\solo\VMRC Client\vmrc.exe solo.avatopia.com:5901/Windows 2000 Server

If launching from a command prompt, you have to quote the spaces:

C:\>"\\solo\VMRC Client\vmrc.exe" solo.avatopia.com:5901/"Windows 2000 Server"

My first thought in converting the above for use on our wiki-site, is to simply HTML-ify it:

file://\\solo\VMRC Client\vmrc.exe solo.avatopia.com:5901/"Windows 2000 Server"

but MediaWiki only converts file://\solo\VMRC to a hyperlink, the remainder is text.

i've tried other random things, including enclosing the URL in square brackets.

What is the correct answer? i don't want to happen to randomly stumble on some format that happens to work today, and breaks in the future.