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I have recently edited this tag-info on MathOverflow.

Only now I have noticed that links are shown as bare urls:

screenshot of the tag-wiki

On the other hand, when editing, the links are rendered as titles of the question in the preview.

screenshot of the edit window

Of course, I should have been more careful and notice this after checking the end result of my edit. (As you can see, I have made two revisions to that tag-wiki and still I somehow was able to miss this.)

Still it would be nice to have consistent behavior between preview and final result. (And it would be even nicer if the links would be rendered in tag-wikis as titles - the same way they are rendered in posts.)

EDIT: Curiously, here is an example of a tag-wiki on another site where link to meta.SE post is rendered as a title, although the source only contains url.

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  • AFAIK the title look-up should only be done while you're on the same site. So the server-side parser did the correct thing. So I suspect the client-side editor/parser is at fault here.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:15
  • @rene Here is a specific example showing an answer with link to meta.SE. If you check revision history and source of this particular post, you can see that the source contains only url, but it is rendered as the title of the question. (After your comment I have doubts about this - but I suppose it is documented somewhere how this should behave.)
    – Martin
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:19
  • Since this is marked as status-completed, it seems that it works at least for some sites: Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?
    – Martin
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:23
  • The example you found was part of automatic script and I assume that only fixed the server-side rendering/html. If you add another revision to that post it will break again would be my guess.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:27
  • @rene Here is another example which was not influenced by the script correcting meta.SO to meta.SE. And link to revision history. And if we want example from MathOverflow, then this answer, here is link to the revision history. I have added example of tag-info from another site to my post - it works there.
    – Martin
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:38
  • Yeah, you're right. Something is off there. Maybe the http/https change did introduce this regression.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 9:41
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    I have created a query that finds such links so it makes it easier to inspect multiple cases. There is something weird going on for sure.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 12, 2017 at 10:15

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