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Bug 50966 - VisualEditor: Provide some way of opening external links within templates
VisualEditor: Provide some way of opening external links within templates
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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: 66549 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-07-08 19:09 UTC by Maggie Dennis
Modified: 2014-06-13 19:34 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Maggie Dennis 2013-07-08 19:09:29 UTC 
From an editor on English Wikipedia:

On the whole, I really like it. It's basically intuitive and seems to have massively improved since I first tested it out. The main problem I'm having involves the amount of effort now required to open external links in references (especially those using {{cite web}} etc). As far as I can tell, I have to click on the footnote, then the icon, then the text of the reference, then another icon, then the url parameter, and once I'm done copy and pasting I have to close two pop-ups. Is there any way around this that I've missed? It's not an error or a bug, but it's the main barrier to efficient editing that I've encountered so far. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Comment 1 WhatamIdoing 2014-03-26 17:47:27 UTC 
This affects more than just templates.  You can't click to open any internal or external link that is located inside any "node" (galleries, image captions, <references />).
Comment 2 James Forrester 2014-06-13 19:34:25 UTC 
*** Bug 66549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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