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VE Citaton dialogs: help links should open in new tab
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Description

Context

The error message in citation dialogs (Insert and Edit) includes links to help pages that open in the same tab (active tab). This disrupts the editing workflow. A link in the citation dialogs should open in a new tab.

Screenshot From 2026-05-28 18-17-06.png (768×444 px, 111 KB)

Wikitext to reproduce (almost):

<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260701154542/https://statistique.quebec.ca/fr}}</ref>

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Wikitext to reproduce:

<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arthur |first=Miller |title= |url=}}</ref>

Acceptance Criteria

  • help link and citation template link open up automatically in a new tab - for all citation template types.

Event Timeline

I suspect this might be a duplicate of T432489: Links to sources in references sometimes open in same tab in VE. That's already fixed via https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1311961 but not yet live. The live wikis will be updated to wmf.12 later today, according to https://versions.toolforge.org. The bugfix will apparently be in wmf.13.