Steps to reproduce:
- Open a page for editing in VE/NWE.
- Click the link tool, type "Category:F", and insert a suggestion.
Expected: [[:Category:Foo]]
Actual: : [[:Category:Foo]]
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| Project | Branch | Lines +/- | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor | master | +14 -7 | Use original title or normalized title when inserting link text |
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The link tool is for making links. The tool is doing the correct thing here, preventing you from accidentally adding the page to a category when you mean to link to it. (The same is true for File: namespace pages, for instance.) We don't currently have a category editing tool for NWE, but I expect post-MCR we will be able to split meta-data into a JSON blob outside of wikitext, at which point we could provide the same meta-data dialog that we can offer in VE.
Do you think this task should be Declined and a new one to do that opened, or something else?
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@Jdforrester-WMF I think @Schnark has got a different problem. The colon is according to him included before the whole link too, which he says is a wrong behavior
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As Dvorapa said, the colon before the title is exactly what's expected. But the tool also inserts an additional colon before the whole link. This additional colon shouldn't be there.
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This isn't specific to NWE. In visual mode you get <a ...>:Category:Book</a>, so the extra colon is the correct based on what the tool is generating. If we fix the visual mode tool this will get fixed too.
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Change 344375 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use original title or normalized title when inserting link text
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But in visual mode the colon at least is inserted inside the label, while in NWE it's outside the link. While the visual-mode-behavior could be seen as correct (though not really desired) behavior, the NWE-behavior is just wrong,
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Change 344375 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use original title or normalized title when inserting link text