Last modified: 2013-07-26 00:03:50 UTC
When I select text that ends in the middle of the word and add a link, only the selected part is linked. Also, <nowiki/> is added after the link. For example, in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ramat_Yohanan&diff=565789129&oldid=553919950 I selected "South Africa" and added the link. I saw an AbuseFilter warning when I was saving, but saved anyway to report the bug :) Being a seasoned Wikipedian, I expect the whole word to be linked, although now that I think of it, I can imagine that linking a part of the word can be useful, too. So I'm not completely sure whether it's a bug or a feature. This may be related to Bug 50127, though the description is not the same.
This is not a 'bug', but intentional behaviour. If you actually want to produce [[Foo]]ian as opposed to [[Foo|Fooian]], VisualEditor/Parsoid doesn't have a way to guarantee that (right now Parsoid creates piped links even when it could do link trails/heads, but this could change in the future), because it's irrelevant to the reader and to editors. Consequently I'm marking this as "WONTFIX", but see bug 37939 for a wider discussion of the usability issue.
