MediaWiki talk:Visualeditor-linkinspector-educationpopup-text

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Following up from mw:Topic:Wh1vsit92x6bpqp7, I'd like to request that this notice be changed so that it reads:

Link important words to other wiki articles. It will help readers understand the context.

This adds a link to a helpful newcomer-friendly page where newcomers who want to learn more about what should be linked can do so. Thoughts? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:Help Project, Wikipedia talk:Usability. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

• The wub, I see you edited this message a few months ago, but I'm not sure what the default was before that. Do you remember? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:10, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

  @Sdkb The default text was Link important words to other wiki articles or even other websites. It will help readers understand the context. You can see the default for a message by just loading any subpage that isn't a valid language code e.g. MediaWiki:Visualeditor-linkinspector-educationpopup-text/blah. the wub "?!" 13:05, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

  @The wub, wow. I certainly support your bold edit there. Newcomers adding inappropriate external links is enough of a problem even without us encouraging it. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:12, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

•  On hold (see MediaWiki talk:Cite-ve-dialogbutton-citation-educationpopup-text) — xaosflux ^Talk 10:20, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Not done for most of the same reasoning listed at MediaWiki talk:Cite-ve-dialogbutton-citation-educationpopup-text. Feel free to continue discussions on improvements to this message. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:29, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

  Tracked in Phabricator
  Task T298837
  

  Per discussion at the other page, this is now at phab:T298837, where some technical changes need to be made before we can proceed. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:09, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 2 March 2022

Per this discussion, it appears we have consensus to change this message to Link important words to other wiki articles. It will help readers understand the context. The Phabricator ticket above is resolved, so we should have the technical ability to do this, although it'd probably be prudent to double check at Testwiki before you make it live. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done. Not been able to test this yet. Waiting for cache/refresh — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:15, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed working Y — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)