VisualEditor: If a link that doesn't have a pipe is changed, the link target remains
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	Amire80
	Nov 24 2013, 12:37 PM

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Consider that you have an internal wiki link that doesn't use a pipe, for example "[[Danzig]]". If you edit the page in VE and change the text from "Danzig" to "Gdańsk" without using the link inspector the result will be "[[Danzig|Gdańsk]]". See the history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/links-nopipe .

It is not obvious to the user what is happening - does the target or does it not? The users may want to achieve one result or the other in different cases. My own hunch is that users will more frequently want to change the target as well, although that is just a guess.

If we have a reason to think that one behavior is far more common than the other, then it should be the default. If we are not sure, than some more indication about the target will be useful. The only ways to be sure before saving are to check the diff to open the link inspector.

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Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54947

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Reference: bz57506

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Mentioned In: T56947: VisualEditor: When user changes a link anchor which has the same link target, suggest that they may wish to change the link target too

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:13 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-MediaWiki.

• bzimport set Reference to bz57506.

Amire80 created this task.Nov 24 2013, 12:37 PM

... Just an explanation for my guess: In the source editor changing [[Nasik]] to [[Nashik]] requires the adding one 'h'. In the current version of VisualEditor it requires adding one 'h', opening the link editor and adding the 'h' there, too.

(In reply to Amir E. Aharoni from comment #0)

Consider that you have an internal wiki link that doesn't use a pipe, for
example "[[Danzig]]". If you edit the page in VE and change the text from
"Danzig" to "Gdańsk" without using the link inspector the result will be
"[[Danzig|Gdańsk]]".

I get the opposite of this ([[Gdańsk|Danzig]]), but this bug still feels valid to me.