On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/10/1 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>:
>> I'm pretty sure the usability kids have something to this effect up
>> their sleeves, hiding somewhere.
>>
> Sort of. We have a link insertion dialog that shows title suggestions
> and page existence status as you type in our Babaco release, which
> should be deployed very soon, and we have ideas about adding a link
> preview to that dialog. We originally envisaged "link preview" to mean
> a preview of what the actual link looks like, but having a preview of
> the linked-to page, if it exists, sounds like an interesting idea.
> I've forwarded the original post to the rest of our team, and I'll
> point them to the rest of this thread as well.

Meanwhile, I wrote a simple JS that tells you when the cursor (in edit
mode) is within a "red link", or if it's a disambiguation page, it
offers "replace-links" to click on. That should answer the problem of
the OP. Could do redirects as well, but didn't want to overload it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/linkfixr.js

Cheers,
Magnus

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