T52747?

This change would be enormously helpful for editors trying to improve references. Many editors leave a bare url plus a page number (or range of pages). Converting a pure bare url to a proper reference is often trivial (just click on Convert), but the existence of page numbers makes it a tedious task. Automatically including the page and pages field would make this much easier.

Change 288650 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
MWTemplateDialog: When opening the dialog, add in any unset suggested and required parameters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288650

Change 288650 merged by jenkins-bot:
MWTemplateDialog: When opening the dialog, add in any unset suggested and required parameters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288650

I see this is marked as resolved, but I just tried it but did not seem to work the way I had expected.

Here is my edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kumina&type=revision&diff=727584616&oldid=726486989

I had originally expected that the convert step would add a field for page number possibly filled out possibly not, but that did not happen. However, I checked and the link now goes to the proper page. I believe the prior result was that it would bring you to the first page so arguably this is an even better result although some might wish that the page number be specifically included in the citation.

It does seem to solve the problem I had so I will begin using it again — I just note that some practitioners may desire the page number field.

My next test failed. I'll put together something a bit more formal.

In T97482#2416492, @Sphilbrick wrote:

I see this is marked as resolved, but I just tried it but did not seem to work the way I had expected.

Because it's not yet deployed. :-)