Autocomment formatter section link should be wider than just the one arrow character
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	Apr 17 2013, 11:55 PM

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A usual line consists of

03:30, 15 April 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-9)‎ . . Template talk:GeoTemplate ‎ (→‎Yes you needn't produce misleading two point Google results anymore: well at least the q=loc: works still!)

Here there is a tiny linked arrow.
Why not link the entire sentence along with the arrow?
Please do not require the user to aim his mouse precisely upon a single character wide link! I cannot think of any major website that would do that...
The whole sentence after it is completely wastefully unlinked.
This is not just a footnote where space is at a premium.

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T9256: Extend arrow wikilink in an edit summary to include section name

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Reference: bz47342

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	formatAutocomments: Move section title after arrow into the section link	mediawiki/core	master	+11 -11

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:15 AM

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Jidanni created this task.Apr 17 2013, 11:55 PM

Bug 43350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61602 (Gerrit Change I37053fd80432e6932a165eddbaf86a0426369b54)

One also sees the tiny link arrow on
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Pressure_cooker_bomb&diff=next&oldid=551220044
Please handle this case too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Vannevar_Bush&action=history too!

prageck wrote:

I submitted a patch for this bug, but Anomie suggested that we can not include the autocomment (the sentence after the arrow) into the link without throwing away the ability to have links in the autocomment itself.

Well all I can say is 99% of the time...

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJan 22 2016, 11:05 PM

The title attribute only contains the name of the page, which is the same in every case, it doesn't contain the heading or anchor. Improving the title attribute would satisfy WCAG 2.0 SC 2.4.9, although begrudgingly, since note H33 recommends using CSS to hide part of the link text instead, due to "extensive user agent limitations" with the title attribute.

Adding an aria-label attribute would also satisfy WCAG 2.0, overriding the text of the link for screen readers.

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Change 61602 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aklapper; owner: Prageck):
[mediawiki/core@master] formatAutocomments: Move section title after arrow into the section link

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61602

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 10 2019, 4:09 PM

Aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 10 2019, 4:10 PM

Aklapper mentioned this in T9256: Extend arrow wikilink in an edit summary to include section name.

Aklapper removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.

Change 61602 abandoned by Anomie:
formatAutocomments: Move section title after arrow into the section link

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Obsoleted by I1f845592b

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61602

Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Page-history.Sep 20 2019, 7:44 PM

matej_suchanek edited projects, added TestMe; removed Patch-For-Review.Sep 21 2019, 10:56 AM

matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)

TheDJ closed this task as a duplicate of T165189: "→" link to page section on History page can be hard to click, should be larger somehow.Sep 23 2019, 9:31 AM