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Add a user preference to disable extension
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As stated in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uujt8h1k1llzuyih, a power user may want to temporarily disable the replacement of link text with the display title when working on disambiguation or redirects.

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cicalese moved this task from Backlog to Feature Request on the User-Cicalese board.

Change 938471 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@master] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/938471

Change 938471 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@master] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/938471

cicalese claimed this task.
cicalese moved this task from Feature Request to Closed on the User-Cicalese board.

Change 940446 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_39] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940446

Change 940447 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_40] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940447

Change 940446 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_39] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940446

Change 940447 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_40] Add a user preference to disable extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940447

This work was reverted by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle/+/941986 because it caused T342727. It also introduced undesirable latency in link creation.