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Bug 50360 - VisualEditor: Link input widget should recognise input text that look like urls without protocol as external links (e.g. "www.example.org/foo")
VisualEditor: Link input widget should recognise input text that look like ur...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
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: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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: 56490 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: ve-linkediting
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Reported: 2013-06-28 10:16 UTC by This, that and the other (TTO)
Modified: 2014-10-23 19:16 UTC (History)
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Description This, that and the other (TTO) 2013-06-28 10:16:43 UTC 
This is a legacy of wiki-syntax, where all external links have to begin with the protocol. It would be nice to make the VE link inspector smarter than this.

"www.google.com" is almost certainly meant to be an external link - if there is an article by this name, then it could be shown in the link inspector dropdown as well, but the option for "External link" definitely needs to be there. Even something like "royal.gov.uk" should be recognised as a URL.

Requiring "http://" or some other protocol at the start is confusing for the newbie, as the protocol component of URLs is generally ignored nowadays.
Comment 1 Krinkle 2013-07-09 11:35:26 UTC 
We solved this to some degree in WikiEditor with the link dialog in that extension. We can probably re-use some of that logic.
Comment 2 James Forrester 2014-06-12 21:37:42 UTC 
*** Bug 56490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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