Which shortcut could we use?

I'm not sure which letters are already in use by MediaWiki.

Picking proper access keys is quite hard, especially if you want to keep accessibility in mind (which we clearly should).

Cool :)
Do you want to pick a shortcut and post it here to see if anyone sees issues with it?

The modifier keys remain the same as the ones prescribed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts
The access key can be 'a', if there are no issues with it?

Edit: Ignore this comment, read below.

Being new to the MediaWiki codebase, I was trying to read up on how to achieve a solution for this. I found T48538 to be very helpful.
Also, sorry, I posted the wrong set of access keys. The MediaWiki shortcut keys are here.

The available alphabet keys are: j, k
I hope we can go with 'k'?

Hmmmm j and k as keyboard shortcuts are usually used for previous/next. So I fear we can't go with k :(

In T74808#1800875, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:

Hmmmm j and k as keyboard shortcuts are usually used for previous/next. So I fear we can't go with k :(

Well, some other options are: [ , ],[ / ],[ \ ], [ ; ], [ - ], [ * ]
How about [ , ]?

Ok how about you submit a patch with this and we'll see if someone else still has a better idea then. Should be easy enough to change in that case.

Okay, I'll go ahead with , and get working on the patch, then!

I had taken this task up a while ago, but couldn’t follow it up due to my lack of familiarity with mediawiki-extensions and my preference towards pywikibot projects. Now that I am trying to work towards GSoC in pywikibot, I don't think I'll be able devote time towards understanding and solving this, and hence am placing it up for grabs.

If no one claims it by April, I'd be glad to take this up again! :)

Removed the good first task tag as this needs further discussion before it can tackled (if we even want this at all).

Would like to take it up .
Will alt+a could be shortcut for the Add links.