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Bug 51422 - Adding formatting to wiki link formats text not link
Adding formatting to wiki link formats text not link
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 50098
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
General (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: James Forrester
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Reported: 2013-07-16 04:57 UTC by James Alexander
Modified: 2013-08-23 17:29 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description James Alexander 2013-07-16 04:57:36 UTC
See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=564459649#Italicizing_wikilinks

When someone italicizes (or bolds) a wiki link instead of placing quote marks around the link itself (like ''[[link]]'' ) it pipes a link with the same text but with quotes (for example [[link|''link'']] ) creating unneeded wikitext.
Comment 1 Chris McKenna 2013-08-23 01:43:38 UTC
It has been noted today that VE still has issues with large pages, so it really shouldn't be adding unnecessary bytes to a page like this.
Comment 2 Elitre 2013-08-23 09:08:19 UTC
As I wrote in 50098, to avoid [[Foo|''Bar'']] you should italicize first, and link only after
that. I added this to the Italian User guide and I am looking for other similar tips I might be missing.
Thanks.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2013-08-23 17:29:15 UTC
This is the same as bug 50098, yes; merging.

(In reply to comment #1)
> It has been noted today that VE still has issues with large pages, so it
> really
> shouldn't be adding unnecessary bytes to a page like this.

The length of a page's wikitext has no direct impact on VisualEditor's performance; it's the length and complexity of the HTML that's in question. In this case, the HTML is identical, so this has no performance impact.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50098 ***

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