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Create proof of concept for launching VisualEditor from a "deep link"
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Description

This shall be a proof of concept implementation of "deep linking" to a particular paragraph (see T400335), needed for using Edit Checks as Edit Suggestions.

The deep link shall contain an article oldId, a paragraph number, and paragraph plaintext to match fuzzily.

NOTE: the Editing Team will complete work related to this ticket by EOD Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025

Event Timeline

Change #1190824 had a related patch set uploaded (by Divec; author: Divec):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Allow triggering checks on a specific ContentBranchNode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1190824

Test wiki created on Patch demo by MGrosse-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://2f3545fe76.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

Test wiki on [[ | Patch demo ]] by MGrosse-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://2f3545fe76.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

Test wiki on Patch demo by MGrosse-WMF using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://2f3545fe76.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

Change #1190824 abandoned by Divec:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Allow triggering checks on a specific ContentBranchNode

Reason:

Proof of concept only

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1190824

Following discussion, we decided the final implementation should use a different technique (subclassing).