Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Linking Bugs/Suggestions

First I just want to thank you all for this amazing work. I just discovered MediaWiki and have been searching high and low for a better editor. Everything done so far looks wonderful. I don't have the technical knowledge to know what limitations you face, but I'd like to offer my input as a brand new observer of the underside of MediaWiki.

Right now when I click on a link I get this icon: Link  Instinctively, I have some expectations about what clicking this icon would do. So I click on it and it highlights the entire link: Highlight  That is definitely not what I would expect to happen. I would expect it to highlight the entire link and open the contextual drop-down giving me the ability to edit the link. When only the word is highlighted, it is not clear what my next step should be. I didn't click on the link to highlight it. I clicked on it to edit it.

When I get to the point with the highlighted link and then click the link button in the upper toolbar, I get this bug: Bug  A few things about this bug.
 * 1) Pop-up overlays two boxes.  The box in the foreground is usually lower than the box underneath it.
 * 2) Word overflow outside of the pop-up text box.  Design suggestion: consider making the suggested link pop-up much wider to give the users more information.  When it works correctly it abbreviates the links, making it difficult to use for it's intended purpose.  So either making the overall pop-up bigger or allowing the suggested links box to be bigger would be great.

Lastly, I'm not sure if this is a bug, but it's still worth pointing out. Let's say you have the phrase: I'm on Fire. Fire is currently linked to a page, but you want the whole phrase, I'm on Fire, to be the link. So you highlight the whole phrase and go through the process of creating the link. My expectation would be for the old link to be overwritten by the new one and the phrase I'm on Fire would now become a single link. What actually happens is that two links are formed. "I'm on" has the new link and "Fire" has this strange double link thing going on. You can see it here.