Last modified: 2014-05-22 00:05:47 UTC
The gadget exlinks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-exlinks.js is not being obeyed. (24,000+ accounts have it enabled at Enwiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences and 35,000 Globally, making it the 6th most popular Wikipedia gadget https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets/wikipedia )
Note: Bug submitted on behalf of this issue raised by Risker: "It is not possible to examine an external link before clicking on it, so one has to trust that the person who inserted the link will not send the reader to a site that might be a problem for that reader. Gonna be honest, there aren't a lot of people I trust that well; even people I know who have acted in good faith have inserted links that I don't want to follow or that will create problems for some users. [Note: admins can click "edit" and see the link, but non-admins cannot do so]" See the related bug 60465 ("provide View Source (showing the wikitext) of someone's post") for another way to partially resolve this issue.
you could just change the selector from $('a.external') to $('a.external, a[rel="mw:ExtLink"]'). then it would work for all parsoid content, but i don't have an edit button for that gadget. As an aside, in desktop browsers you can typically see where a link goes by hovering it and looking at the bar on the bottom of the browser(in chrome and firefox, maybe others).
(In reply to Erik Bernhardson from comment #2) > you could just change the selector from $('a.external') to $('a.external, > a[rel="mw:ExtLink"]'). then it would work for all parsoid content, but i > don't have an edit button for that gadget. Why isn't parsoid adding the 'external' class?
(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #3) > Why isn't parsoid adding the 'external' class? Hmm, this is also tracked as bug 56756 in Flow which is blocked by 51245 in Parsoid.
I don't think Parsoid is going to change its HTML output, so I suggested making the fix to the gadget's JS code from comment #2 on the gadget's talk page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-exlinks.js#Fix_to_support_Parsoid_external_links>
