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Pasting a list of interwiki links resulted in plain text
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Make a list of interwiki (not interlanguage) links and save the page: https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=164829&oldid=163207 These links are in the form [[w:am:|Amharic]], and if you click them, then you will end up at the Main Page for the specified Wikipedia (e.g., https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/ዋናው_ገጽ for the Amharic Wikipedia).
  1. Copy those links.
  1. Open VisualEditor on a different page, and paste those links.

Actual result: Plain text, rather than the links, was pasted into the page.

Expected result: The links would be pasted into the page.

Priority: I had to use the wikitext editor as a workaround.

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• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Dec 18 2015, 6:46 PM
• Whatamidoing-WMF raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
• Whatamidoing-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
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Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jan 12 2016, 8:18 PM
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If the pasted text is over a certain length (ISTR it's 80 characters) we don't try to parse it as wikitext, but just paste it as plain text, to avoid performance issues with people's machines. Does it work if you copy just a single one?

matmarex added a subtask: T129546: Support preserving external links in pasted HTML content.Aug 31 2018, 8:56 PM
Krinkle closed subtask T129546: Support preserving external links in pasted HTML content as Resolved.Jul 30 2022, 12:40 AM
matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Nov 3 2022, 8:36 PM
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This seems to work correctly these days, as long as you're editing on a wiki that allows parsing external links (currently mediawikiwiki, metawiki and officewiki).

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