https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65540
Bug ID: 65540
Summary: VisualEditor: automatically convert URLs to readable
links
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]
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Quora has a lovely feature in its visual editor: paste a URL and it's
immediately and automatically converted in a smart way.
* If it's a link to another answer on Quora, it is given an appropriate title.
* If it's a link to YouTube, the video is embedded.
* If it's a link to some other website, the page's HTML <title> is inserted and
automatically linked. (There may be other special cases, but you get the idea.)
After the link is thus inserted, the user can edit the text or click another
button to make the actual URL appear or to make the URL just plain text.
I'd love such a feature in VE. It's especially relevant for newbies who link to
other Wikipedia articles with full http links as if they were external. For
external links, getting the title automatically is usually better than having a
plain URL (in fact, there are some bots that automatically insert such titles).
And pasting a Commons URL can embed the media as such.
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