Linking experience

[solarkraft]

The current linking experience is just terrible. How can we improve it?

Ideas:

• Take the link editor from the text based editor
• Implement some inline editing solution (pop-over with text field?)

Goals

• It should be very easy to link to a page that doesn’t exist to create a page structure
• It should be even easier to link to a page that does exist (tab-completion)
• It should be very easy to link to an external website

Ideas

• When pasting a URL the website title is automatically fetched
• When selecting text and clicking the link button, text for the link destination can be entered. By default this leads to a wiki page, existing pages are suggested while typing (see search suggestions) and can be selected with tab or enter. If the entered text starts with a protocol identifier (there‘s more to life than https://), it’s an external link. Special case: mailto: colliding with namespacing.