On this diff, I've tried to add anchored links with VE to the two last items.
On edition, the link was red. May be related to T112862?
Expectation
Reality
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take link fragments into account | mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor | master | +10 -1 |
How exactly was this link created? Pasting a URL? Using the link inspector tool?
(And what regex is the "nice regex", exactly?)
Open a VE editor, write a word hello, select it, apply a link with the value "en:Foo#Bar", save. Link has been changed down to [[en:Foo|hello]].
In the link inspector, the url is *displayed* as "en:Foo#Bar" but mouseover reveals that target href has already been truncated to "en:Foo".
FWIW, *pasting* the string [[mw:Flow#Design FAQ]] or [[mw:Flow#Design FAQ|FAQ]] works fine as a workaround to create the desired link, although this appears as an external link in the link inspector before being saved.
As James explained, I did this:
This also affects link that are only a section. E.g. See [[#History]] for more information gets rendered by VE as a redlink normalised on save as wiktext [[|#History]] (note the pipe at the beginning and empty page target).
Just reported the same issue at en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and was directed here. Any progress with this yet?
Change 303327 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Take link fragments into account
Isn't that because it'll be deployed to Meta 19:00–21:00 UTC today and was deployed to test wikis and mediawiki.org yesterday?
It works indeed! Thank you very much. This was the literally most annoying bug in my list as a relatively hapy wiki editor. It was the main reason why I was forced to switch to wikitext editor from my VE default. Thank you again, @AlexMonk-WMF . :)