Why are wikipedia links so weird?

for example, i try to post this line of text as a link...

plain text:

hello i'm josh

link to google:

hello i'm josh

link to wikipedia article about fixed gear:

hello i'm josh

is it just my browser (firefox) or does the link to wiki come up as "Fixed_gear Fixed_gear" rather than "hello i'm josh"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_gear

edit: ok it didn't do it in the first post but in this one this links ^ is supposed to say "what is this! its not doing it" not "Fixed_gear Fixed_gear"
double edit: but links to other sites work fine.

So you're basically asking why Wikipedia links come up twice as opposed to Google links which come up the expected 1-time™?

I dunno either.

I think that Velocio is trying to insert a wikipedia icon but that seems to fail hence the 'image not found' box.

i see no image not found box? different browser?

I think that Velocio is trying to insert a wikipedia icon but that seems to fail hence the 'image not found' box.

Nice spot... missing image... fixed.

Ahhh so that's what it was supposed to be. Cheers VB.

so yeah it works now?

edit: hmmm that was supposed to say "so yeah it works now?" not "Fixed_gear"

is it possible to have the W and do display the writing rather than wiki page name?

thanks

Hey VB,

Google links have the missing icon too:

[ame="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&ei=NDm7Svf6MY--mQPwkKGeDQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=spoke+calculator&spell=1"]Google link[/ame]

http://www.londonfgss.com/images/misc/google_icon_new.gif comes back with a 404.

Frankly, they're all weird.

I'll re-do them all I think.