--- wiki/mediawiki/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php	2011-10-24 14:10:14.000000000 +0200
+++ /opt/lampp/htdocs/testwiki2/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php	2011-11-19 17:00:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 		// be loaded here, so feel free to use wfMsg*() in the 'name'. Raw HTML or wikimarkup
 		// can be used.
 		$software = array();
-		$software['[http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]'] = self::getVersionLinked();
+		$software['[//www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]'] = self::getVersionLinked();
 		$software['[http://www.php.net/ PHP]'] = phpversion() . " (" . php_sapi_name() . ")";
 		$software[$dbr->getSoftwareLink()] = $dbr->getServerInfo();
 
@@ -391,7 +391,12 @@
 
 		# Make main link (or just the name if there is no URL).
 		if ( isset( $extension['url'] ) ) {
-			$mainLink = "[{$extension['url']} $name]";
+			$url = $extension['url'];
+			# Remove protocol for URLs known to work both with http: and https:
+			if ( strpos( $url, 'http://www.mediawiki.org' ) === 0 ) {
+				$url = substr( $url, 5 );
+			}
+			$mainLink = "[$url $name]";
 		} else {
 			$mainLink = $name;
 		}