The Linker::link() function is deprecated as of 1.28,//(This task is a parent task for extensions. For Core see T223010. and the new LinkRenderer is preferred instead. This task is to migrate extensions to use the new code instead of the deprecated function.For Skins see [these tasks](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=279315,279316,279317,279318,279319#R).)//
Skills required: PHP`Linker::link()` and `Linker::linkKnown()` functions are deprecated as of MediaWiki 1.28, MediaWikiand the new `LinkRenderer` is preferred instead.
A list of usages of Linker::link() from PhpStorm:* https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classLinker.html
```* Skills required to work on these tasks: PHP, MediaWiki.
Directory | Usage count* Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LinkRenderer
exten* Example conversions/AbuseFilter 2 (done) (simple): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/303075/
extensions/AbuseFilter/special 2 (done)
extensions/AbuseFilter/Views 17 (done)
extensions/ApprovedRevs 2 (done)
extensions/ArticleFeedback 3 (done)
extensions/ArticleFeedbackv5 1 2 (done)
extensions/ArticleFeedbackv5/api 1 (done)
extensions/ArticleRatings 1 (done)
extensions/BibManager/includes 7 (done)
extensions/BibManager/includes/specials 2 (done)
extensions/BlockAndNuke 3 (done)
extensions/BlogPage 2 (done)
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/ArticleInfo 2
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/CountThings/views 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/ExtendedSearch/includes 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/ExtendedSearch/includes/SearchIndex 6
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/ExtensionInfo 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/PageAccess/includes/specials 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/PageAssignments/includes 3
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/PageAssignments/includes/api 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/Readers/includes/api 4
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/Review 6
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/RSSStandards 1 (done)
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/ShoutBox 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/SmartList 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/UserSidebar 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/WhoIsOnline/views 1
extensions/BlueSpiceExtensions/WidgetBar/views 1
extensions/BlueSpiceFoundation/includes/api 2
extensions/BlueSpiceFoundation/includes/skins 1
extensions/BlueSpiceFoundation/includes/utility 1
extensions/BookManagerv2 9
extensions/BreadCrumbs 2 (done)
extensions/Cargo 2 (partially done)
extensions/Cargo/drilldown 1 (done)
extensions/Cargo/specials 2 (done)
extensions/CentralAuth/includes 3
extensions/CentralAuth/includes/GlobalRename 1 (done)
extensions/CentralAuth/includes/specials 5 (done)
extensions/CentralNotice/includes 3 (partially done)
extensions/CentralNotice/includes/HtmlFormElements 2 (done)
extensions/CentralNotice/special 9 (done)
extensions/Challenge 10
extensions/Challenge/templates 9 (done)
extensions/CheckUser (done)
extensions/CheckUser/specials 1 (done)
extensions/CleanChanges 2
extensions/CodeReview/backend 1 (done)
extensions/CodeReview/ui 25 (done)
extensions/CommentStreams/includes 2 (done)
extensions/CommunityApplications 1
extensions/Configure/specials 4
extensions/ContributionsList 1
extensions/DataTransfer/specials 1
extensions/Disambiguator/specials 1 (done)
extensions/DiscussionThreading 4
extensions/DPLforum 7 (done)
extensions/DumpHTML 1
extensions/Echo 1 (done)
extensions/EducationProgram/includes 5
extensions/EducationProgram/includes/actions 4
extensions/EducationProgram/includes/pagers 1
extensions/EducationProgram/includes/specials 1 (done)
extensions/EducationProgram/includes/tables 1
extensions/EventLogging/includes 1
extensions/FanBoxes 5
extensions/Favorites 12
extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend 5 (in progress)
extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/specialpages/reports 12 (done)
extensions/Flow 1
extensions/Flow/includes 2
extensions/Flow/includes/Block 3
extensions/Flow/includes/Formatter 4
extensions/Flow/includes/Parsoid/Fixer 1
extensions/Gadgets 4 (done)
extensions/GeoCrumbs 1
extensions/GlobalBlocking/includes/specials 1 (done)
extensions/GlobalCssJs 1
extensions/GlobalPreferences 1
extensions/GlobalUsage 5 (done)
extensions/GoogleMaps 1
extensions/GWToolset/includes/Forms 5 (done)
extensions/GWToolset/includes/Handlers/Forms 1 (done)
extensions/GWToolset/includes/Models 1 (done)
extensions/GWToolset/includes/Specials 1 (done)
extensions/HitCounters/includes 1
extensions/ImageTagging 3
extensions/ImportFreeImages 1
extensions/IndexFunction 5
extensions/Interlanguage 2
extensions/intersection 1
extensions/Interwiki 1 (in progress)
extensions/LastUserLogin 1
extensions/LifeWeb 1 (done)
extensions/LightweightRDFa 1
extensions/LinkFilter 3
extensions/LiquidThreads/api 2 (done)
extensions/LiquidThreads/classes 16 (done)
extensions/LiquidThreads/pages 16 (done)
extensions/Maintenance 4
extensions/MassEditRegex 1
extensions/MassMessage/includes/content 1
extensions/MassMessage/includes/logging 2 (done)
extensions/MiniInvite 4
extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/skins 1 (done)
extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials 4 (done)
extensions/MoodBar 6
extensions/Newsletter/includes/logging 1 (done)
extensions/Newsletter/includes/specials 1 (done)
extensions/Nuke 1 (done)
extensions/NukeDPL 1
extensions/OATHAuth 1
extensions/OAuthAuthentication/utils 2
extensions/OpenID 6
extensions/OpenStackManager/nova 2
extensions/OpenStackManager/special 37
extensions/PageBlock 3
extensions/PageForms/includes 4
extensions/PageForms/specials 2
extensions/PageSchemas/specials 1
extensions/Patroller 1
extensions/Petition 1
extensions/Phalanx 2
extensions/PictureGame 3
extensions/PollNY 9 (done)
extensions/PrefStats 1
extensions/Premoderation 3
extensions/ProofreadPage 4
extensions/QuizGame 10 (done)
extensions/ReaderFeedback/specialpages 1
extensions/RecentActivityFeed 1
extensions/Renameuser 2 (done)
extensions/Renameuser/specials 2 (done)
extensions/ReplaceText 6 (done)
extensions/RevisionCommentSupplement/special 3
extensions/Scribunto/engines/LuaSandbox 1
extensions/SecurePoll/includes/pages 2
extensions/SelectCategory 1
extensions/SemanticDrilldown/includes 2
extensions/SemanticDrilldown/specials 1
extensions/SemanticForms/includes 4
extensions/SemanticForms/specials 2
extensions/SemanticMaps/src/queryprinters1
extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/includes 3
extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/includes/datavalues 1
extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/src/Query 1
extensions/SemanticPageMaker/includes/widgets/datatype 1
extensions/SemanticPageMaker/specials/WidgetAssembler 5
extensions/SemanticResultFormats/formats/calendar 1
extensions/SemanticSifter/src/main/parserfunction 1
extensions/SideBarMenu/src 1
extensions/SiteScout 1
extensions/SmiteSpam 3 (done)
extensions/SmiteSpam/api 2 (done)
extensions/SmoothGallery 1
extensions/SocialProfile/SystemGifts 4 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserActivity 1 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserBoard 3 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserGifts 6 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserProfile 2 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserRelationship 7 (done)
extensions/SocialProfile/UserStats 3 (done)
extensions/SpamDiffTool 1
extensions/SpecialNamespaces 3
extensions/SpellingDictionary/includes 2
extensions/SportsTeams 25
extensions/SSLClientAuthentication 1
extensions/Sudo 5
extensions/TimedMediaHandler 3
extensions/TitleIcon 1 (done)
extensions/Translate/specials 8 (done)
extensions/Translate/tag 5
extensions/Translate/utils 5
extensions/TwoFactorAuthentication 2
extensions/UnusedRedirects 2
extensions/UserMerge 2 (done)
extensions/UserPageViewTracker 2 (in progress)
extensions/UserStatus 4
extensions/Video 1
extensions/VisualEditor 2 (done)
extensions/VoteNY 1 (in progress)
extensions/WantedPagesFromNS 2
extensions/WatchSubpages 2
extensions/Wikibase/client/includes/RecentChanges 1
extensions/Wikibase/client/includes/Specials 1 (done)
extensions/WikiForum 3
extensions/WikiLexicalData/OmegaWiki 5
extensions/Wikilog 20* Note: By default LinkRenderer does HTML escaping, so whatever is being passed in as the text may need to be adjusted to avoid double escaping.
See the list of dedicated subtasks below for extension codebases which have a dedicated project tag (`T279325`-`T279339`are WMF-deployed extensions).
List of remaining extension codebases which do **not** have a dedicated project tag (hence that's #Mediawiki-extensions-other), per 2021-04-05:
[ ] CloneDiff
extensions/WikimediaIncubator 4 (partially done)[ ] ContributionsList
extensions/WYSIWYG/WYSIWYG 1[ ] CreatedPagesList
includes 27 (done)[ ] CreatePageUw
includes/actions 12 (done)[ ] EditSimilar
includes/cache 1 (done)[ ] Favorites
includes/changetags 1 (done)[ ] GlobalUserrights
includes/logging 6 (done)[ ] GoogleAnalyticsTopPages
includes/page 1 (done)[ ] NukeDPL
includes/revisiondelete 5 (done)[ ] PagesList
includes/skins 3 (done)[ ] SemanticSifter
includes/specialpage 6 (done)[ ] SideBarMenu
includes/s[ ] Specials 32 (done)Namespaces
includes/specials/pagers 6 (done)[ ] SSLClientAuthentication
includes/user 1 (done)[ ] StickToThatLanguage
tests/phpunit/includes/logging 4[ ] UserPageViewTracker - patch at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UserPageViewTracker/+/439480
```
Example conversion (simple): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/303075/
Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LinkRenderer
Note: By default LinkRenderer does HTML escaping, so whatever is being passed in as the text may need to be adjusted to avoid double escaping.[ ] WantedPagesFromNS