If you press space before pasting or if you paste is after typing a text, it sometimes works, but you sometimes only have rough text, without links or a blank space inserted. It doesn't happen every time. Copy an username has a different behavior (T135620).
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T135126 Copy/pasting links on Flow has multiple unexpected behaviors | |||
| Open | None | T135621 Copy/pasting a link to a page (except user page) on Flow sometimes can't be pasted (invalid/blacklisted HTML?) |
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/289446/ is related as it re-enables the pasting of external links although I'm not sure if that covers what you are talking about here.
On the main bug this was split out from (T135126#2291171) I said that I thought that this could be related to language link syntax. One of the examples that was linked to had someone clearly trying to link to [[:de:Foo]] but ending up with [[de:Foo]]. It was hard to tell though if they made that mistake in wikitext or if VE caused it.
I've tried with:
Nothing changed.
This turned out to be a Parsoid bug: T136653: Parsoid doesn't recognize interwiki shortcuts in the href attribute.