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Links within code tags are not obvious as links
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As an example, look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30?useskin=vector#Configuration_changes.
There are 10 code tags in that section, all of them looking alike, but actually 3 of them are links. Unless you hover over/tab through them, it is not possible to identify them as links.
Instead, they should be visually distinguishable, like they are in Minerva skin.

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Jdlrobson renamed this task from Links with code tags don't look like links to Links within code tags are not obvious as links.Jan 15 2020, 8:03 PM
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Personally I think this is an editorial issue. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Localized_link is at fault here

A link like so is perfectly readable:

<code>[[Manual:Hooks/ChangeTagsAllowedAdd|ChangeTagsAllowedAdd]]</code>

A link that wraps a code block is strange, and I suggest we don't add complexity to skins to deal with it.

Thoughts?