https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50945
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Bug ID: 50945
Summary: Wikilink editing does not permit easy alteration of
display text
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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From a conversation with an English Wikipedia editor user Thryduulf, he says
that when it comes to editing existing links (as opposed to adding new one):
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there are three things you could want to do:
(1) change the link without changing the text (e.g. [[Mercury]] → [[Mercury
(planet)|Mercury]])
(2) change the text without changing the link (e.g. [[Mercury (element)]] →
[[Mercury (element)|Mercury]])
(3) change both (e.g. [[Mercury]] → [[Freddie Mercury]])
At present it seems that the visual editor always assumes you want to do 1, and
unless you delete the link completely there is no way of doing otherwise...,
but for beginners I'd say that 3 should be the default. There needs to be some
way to set the target of a link independently of what is displayed, and I'm not
sure how best to do that but maybe an option on the link dialog called "display
as" or something like that would be the way to go.
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(Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&oldid=563383564#Changing_link_text_often_results_in_bad_code.2C_wrong_links_and_unmatched_.3C.2Fnowki.3Es
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