Use only for search, no link preview

Hi Andyt,

Thank you for your feedback and request.

Could you provide more information (with screenshots if possible) on the challenge you’re getting with the night mode, for better understanding?

Regards.

Hi Wikimedia Foundation,

Thank you for your response. I already disabled the plugin because of the problems.

The first area has to do with the preview. This is not always displayed. I have already created links to Wikipedia again and again in the past. Therefore, many links are already available. I noticed that for some of them the website is called directly and no preview is created. I could not find a connection between the links. Sometimes it doesn’t work with one link and then later it does. I use primarily as target de.wikipedia.org.

For this I continue to use the Classic Editor, because the Gutenberg Editor is still too unstable and not very intuitive. Unfortunately the search support is not available. Here, as already described, I would simply prefer a search option in the dashboard…

The second area has to do with the automatic blackout. In night mode the web page is already very dark. Since I specifically want to support OLED displays, pure black is often used. This makes everything invisible when darkened.

In addition, the preview is also very dark and therefore also poorly legible. This affects the text, logos and other information from Wikipedia. In both cases I could not find a smooth adjustment.

A minor irritation was the fact that the preview always stuck to the footer (i.e. showed at the bottom of the screen) and took up the entire width.

Finally, the different behavior when I add a link to Wikipedia via Classic Editor or the Gutenberg Editor was irritating. In the Gutenberg Editor the links get an additional unwanted marker. The links to Wikipedia are already specially marked. I was able to mitigate that a bit, but as mentioned, I think the pure function in the editor is great. I would rather disable the preview.

regards, Andyt

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Andyt8.

Thanks @andyt8 for the detailed feedback. Here are some responses to your questions, we hope you find them useful.

Could you share with us some sample links you tried to use so that we can try to replicate the issue on our end?

For the search & preview support on Classic editor, we will explore how we can replicate the same experience that is available on Gutenberg; we’ll keep you posted on this.

You can customise some of the styling by following these instructions on the admin site:

Go to “Appearance / customize”, then select the “Additional CSS” option from the left side menu. In the text box, the following CSS should reset the existing term style so you can adjust it to your liking.
Note that the new stye likely won’t apply in the post editor but will apply on the published posts.

.wmf-wp-with-preview { border: 0; background-color: unset; padding: unset; } .wmf-wp-with-preview::after { content: ”; }

Please reach out incase of any further questions.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Wikimedia Foundation.

Hello, thank you for your response. At the moment I have no sample links, because I disabled and deleted the plugin. According to my description (and problems), I don’t want an additional preview – only the function for search and insert during writing…

However, I will try your code next week. I will install and enable the plugin and maybe I have some sample links.

best regards, Andyt

Hello,

I reinstalled the plugin and enabled it. I added the CSS elements and deleted the cache. The preview is still available.

You are able to find an article with wikipedia links at https://blackseals.net/blog/2023/07/23/saturday-night-cruising-2023-entdeckungsreise-entlang-der-moststrasse/

Every link to wikipedia gets a preview. If you switch to dark mode, the design fail because the preview “disable” the normal website. Normally it change it a little bit darker which work for a normal website – but not with dark mode.

Please for response.

Hi @andyt8,
Regarding the 1st concern, every link gets a preview– we designed the plugin to work in this specific way especially for the reader in mind; allowing them to get a preview of the content without necessarily opening a new page. Changing this behaviour would entirely move away from it’s original design and purpose.
On the 2nd issue regarding dark mode, we were able to replicate the issue and we’ve created an improvement task on our board; sharing it here for your reference and tracking. We’ll update you once it’s done.
Regards,
WMF team.

Hi WMF team, thank you for your response. I’m fine with 1st concern, if the 2nd issue is working fine. I will follow your link and check the status every week (or month).

edit: if you have something to test, you are welcome. Please for information.

best regards, Andyt

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Andyt8. Reason: correction and adding edit request/info

Hi,

Now it is possible for me to show the different representation. The link to Leaflet was created with the plugin “Wikipedia Preview”. Two changes to the other links are immediately noticeable. First, they are missing the nice icon behind the link and second, this is underlined separately.

My question now would be, can I fix this somehow, that this looks like the other links?

For the first problem, the plugin doesn’t seem to create a proper link. I also miss the preview when I move the mouse over the link. Usually I see in the web browser where the link goes.

Example: https://blackseals.net/blog/2023/09/07/umstieg-auf-leaflet-fuer-openstreetmap/