Hello,
When writing
VisualEditor 'add link' dialog has tabs for 'internal link' and 'external link'. I would like it to also have a tab for 'sister wiki link' and it should remember my last selection about which sister wiki to use.
It doesn't call them out explicitly as a full tab but that doesn't mean it doesn't support them. You can insert them into the internal links input using the interwiki link syntax.
@AlexMonk-WMF I mean, if you do these steps
Two things go wrong:
Maybe we could split these two things into separate bugs. Please let me know if you would like that to happen.
I know links like this are unwanted on nlwiki, so I would like this to be configurable.
We used to have this feature (three tabs, not two), and after careful user testing we removed it. The differentiation between a local and interwiki link (or a pasted external link that happens to be an interwiki link) was entirely confusing to the users who were trying to edit, and the presence of the third tab meant that fewer people successfully made any link at all. It's unnecessary — instead, VE (or rather, Parsoid) does the magic for the user, replacing unnecessary external links with interwikis on save.