Auto completion in "Linked article" of an item does not stop at the shortest found article.
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	• bzimport
	Jan 12 2013, 7:10 PM

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Author: regdenied

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The auto completion does not try to complete to the shortest found article so you might hit enter and save not the link you meant to save.

Exmple: You add the article "Germ" in Simple English (to which item does not matter) your input will get auto completed to "Germany"

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Severity: major

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:39 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository.

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• bzimport created this task.Jan 12 2013, 7:10 PM

This is similar to how things are handled for example in the autocompletion in the browser URL field and Google's search field. This is intended. I'm closing as wontfix therefor. We're working on improving the suggestions you get though.

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