Verdy_p (Philippe Verdy) is not a MediaWiki developer (or WMF employee), so
there is no need to pay attention to his bizarre claim that [[Link]]s is
deprecated (it isn't).

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I really, really don't think that it was ever _declared_ as deprecated, in
> any RFC or major architecture document . If it was, I'd like to read where.
>
> That said, in practice Visual Editor treats characters that come
> immediately after links differently:
>
> 1. If the caret is at the end of link, but inside the highlighted link
> area, then it becomes [[Link|Links]]. It's a bit longer syntax, but
> functionally it is what the user usually wanted to happen, so it's not a
> problem. It is, in a way, a little step towards the de-facto deprecation on
> "[[Link]]s". There is a Phab task about it:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50463 .
>
> 2. If the caret is outside the highlighted link area, it becomes
> [[Link]]<nowiki/>s. Technically it's kind of correct, but I went over
> hundreds of edits where this happened in Hebrew and English Wikipedias, and
> in _none_ of these edits it was what the user actually intended. It might
> be different for other languages, and if there are such languages, I'd like
> to know what they are. There's a whole family of Phab tasks around it, such
> as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39939 ,
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128060 ,
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129778 and more.
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 is not totally unresolvable. It's
> more like blocked by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 .
>
>
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>
> 2016-07-27 10:48 GMT+03:00 Bináris <[email protected]>:
>
> > At https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 Verdy_p wrote:
> >
> > "So I think that writing "[[Link]]s" (or "[[Target|Link]]s") instead of
> > "[[Target|Links]]" (or "[[Link|Links]]") is just an old (deprecated)
> trick
> > of MediaWiki used by (lazy) wiki redactors, we cannot recommand using
> it:"
> >
> > I think this may be of a wider interest. Is [[Link]]s syntax really
> > deprecated? I never read about this anywhere.
> > From when?
> > Is it subject to removal?
> > Should all guides be updated and links corrected by bot?
> >
> >
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