Edit summary: automatically convert {{example}} to {{[[Template:Example|example]]}}
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	• bzimport
	Apr 26 2007, 4:23 AM

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Author: gschriss

Description:
When creating an edit summary, I find that creating a wiki-link to the template
I added helps newcomers understand what it is I have done. Normally words
within double brackets display as plain text, but there is no reason I see that
a link could not be created automatically. For example the following:

/* Some section */ I added the {{Unreferenced}} template

should be interpreted in the history list as:

/* Some section */ I added the {{[[Template:Unreferenced|Unreferenced]]}} template.

Thanks!
George Chriss / GChriss

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Severity: trivial

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Reference: bz9701

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Format template calls in edit summaries as links	mediawiki/core	master	+187 -11

Customize query in gerrit

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• bzimport created this task.Apr 26 2007, 4:23 AM

r22051 splits Linker::formatComment in two functions:

formatAutoComments
formatLinksInComment

We can probably add another function to handle templates

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A query shows that there are 6 million unique non-automatic edit summaries that use this syntax https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/54289 and considering normal links are already handled like this, I don't see why templates shouldn't be.

Change 697900 had a related patch set uploaded (by BrandonXLF; author: BrandonXLF):

[mediawiki/core@master] Format template calls in edit summaries as links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/697900

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