Last modified: 2014-09-01 22:15:53 UTC
This sounds to me like it might be hideously complicated, but putting it in here - e.g. a link to [http://foo.com] gets an external link notification icon on its right on the English Wikipedia, and this should show up as appropriate.
Applying the same CSS may be difficult, but internal vs external links should be rendered differently somehow.
Change 130769 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Style external links and their suggestions with the right color https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/130769
Change 130769 merged by jenkins-bot: Style external links and their suggestions with the right color https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/130769
Verified the fix in Betalabs and test2
Verified the fix in production
I'm not seeing this as entirely fixed. The redlink issue has been fixed but there are still other colour issues: * Visited redlinks are not shown in the visited redlink colour, they are shown in the redlink colour. * External links are not shown in the external links colour, they are shown in the internal links colour. * Link icons are omitted: external, secure, pdf etc. The raison d'etre of VE is that it is WYSIWYG while editing. Not having links in the right colour defeats this and can lead to mistakes.
(In reply to Spinningspark from comment #6) > I'm not seeing this as entirely fixed. The redlink issue has been fixed but > there are still other colour issues: > > * Visited redlinks are not shown in the visited redlink colour, they are > shown in the redlink colour. > * External links are not shown in the external links colour, they are shown > in the internal links colour. > * Link icons are omitted: external, secure, pdf etc. > This caught my attention because external link icons have been working for me for a while. Turns out they work in Vector but not in Monobook. This appears to be a bug in Monobook, it's scoping link icon CSS to the wrong div (#bodyContent instead of #content).
Change 153740 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope: Scope external link styling rules to #content rather than #bodyContent https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153740
Change 153740 abandoned by Catrope: Scope external link styling rules to #content rather than #bodyContent Reason: Yeah, that looks much better, thanks guys. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153740
Change 151395 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Use .mw-body in skins https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/151395
Change 151395 merged by jenkins-bot: Use .mw-body in skins https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/151395
Marking this back as FIXED (as it has been fixed in Vector for a while).