Last modified: 2013-06-29 05:27:29 UTC
We currently mark up auto-linked external links (source http://example.com/) as mw:ExtLink/URL (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec#External_links for the spec). There is however no need to distinguish between plain external and auto-linked external URLs on the client side if we automatically convert between the two forms as needed. So we should replace all uses of mw:ExtLink/URL with a plain mw:ExtLink and add some extra info to data-parsoid and cleverness to our serializer. Basically: * If the target and the link text agree, we can serialize a modified or new link as an URL link in wikitext. * If a former URL link's content text is modified by the editor and does not match the target any more, convert to a regular external link. * If an unmodified external link *could* be rendered as an URL link, but is marked up as a full external link in the original Wikitext, then preserve this non-minimal serialization on round-trip. Change detection requires custom shadowing similar to the logic we use for WikiLinks.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/69795 (Gerrit Change Ifa13f93906f09c6d7d019e6b652d11fa48ca2420)
Note: The above commit was not actually related.
Change 71162 had a related patch set uploaded by GWicke: Bug 46027: Drop mw:ExtLink/URL https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71162
Change 71162 had a related patch set uploaded by GWicke: Bug 46027, bug 49484: Drop mw:ExtLink/URL https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71162
Change 71162 merged by jenkins-bot: Bug 46027, bug 49484: Drop mw:ExtLink/URL https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/71162
