We round-trip to Parsoid to generate links as edge cases can require weird syntax, but if we can come up with a way to quickly filter for simple cases (i.e. [[text]]) we could do those locally.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generate internal links locally | mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor | master | +25 -3 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T132023 VisualEditor support for editing inside CollaborationKit | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T138636 Allow using VisualEditor on Special:MassMessage | ||
| Open | None | T138642 VisualEditor should provide a clean integrated VE/WT editor widget that can be integrated into any context | |||
| Open | None | T130400 (Actually) Add wikitext support for citoid for automatic reference insertion | |||
| Open | None | T90864 Help VisualEditor users find the wikitext "Save" button | |||
| Open | None | T171974 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices | |||
| Open | None | T104479 Provide a modern wikitext editor | |||
| Open | None | T142523 Provide a second version of a beta modern wikitext editor integrated into the visual editor | |||
| Resolved | ppelberg | T147230 Generate links locally in NWE (new wikitext editor) in trivial cases |
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WikiEditor seems to think the only thing that needs escaping is two or more close square brackets, so this should be quite simple.
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Change 550351 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Generate internal links locally
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Change 550351 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Generate internal links locally
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@Ryasmeen In new wikitext editor, closing the link inspector to insert an internal link should be instant, and should not display a popup with a progressbar while doing network requests.