Problem: (French) Ce serait bien que les wikiliens entraînent pour le visiteur l'ouverture d'un nouvel onglet dans son navigateur lorsqu'il clique dessus. Cela lui éviterai de perdre la page courante et d'utiliser le bouton de retour du navigateur. Autant faciliter la vie des internautes !
(English) It would be nice if wikilinks would open in a new tab in the browser. This will save us from losing the current page and using the browser's return button. Might as well make life easier for Internet users!
Who would benefit: Les utilisateurs de Wikipédia et des autres projets de la Wikimedia.
Proposed solution: Il faudrait concevoir une adaptation au langage Wiki de la balise HTML suivante : <a href="http://www.exemple.xx" target="_blank">Intitulé textuel</a>
David89: (French) Il est toujours possible pour le lecteur d'ouvrir un lien dans un nouvel onglet en utilisant Clic droit> Ouvrir dans un nouvel onglet. Si chaque lien avait cette propriété html, tout le monde aurait des dizaines d'onglets à fermer.... Peut être que tu peut demander la création d'un gadget, que les lecteurs pourraient activer si ils veulent cette fonctionnalité, sans déranger tout le monde. --Framawiki (talk) 06:48, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(English) it is always possible for the reader to open a link in a new tab by using Right Click > Open in a new tab. If each link had this html property, everyone would have dozens of tabs to close... maybe you can ask for the creation of a gadget, that readers could activate if they want this feature, without disturbing everyone.
I agree. We definitely cannot make all links open in new tabs, for everyone, always. We could introduce a preference, but we have enough of those already. I also believe a gadget or user script would be the best solution, and this would not be hard to implement. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 23:11, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Just a comment on some of the suggestions below, that not everyone has a three-button mouse or one with a clickable wheel - Mac users, for example (though it's still easy to a open link in a new tab). Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 22:19, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The middle click on your mouse can be configured to do exactly that (if it isn't the default already), if not just hold down Ctrl when clicking. Then there's the gadget solutions mentioned above... MER-C (talk) 01:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support As a user preference - both for external links, and for internal links. Yes, I can right click and open in a new tab, but it is hard to do this when using a touchscreen rather than a mouse. AlasdairW (talk) 23:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose If there is one (1) thing that crashes my system a lot it's the opening of new tabs, I already have to be careful and forced reloads often make me lose a lot of prepared editing (which causes me to make numerous small edits instead of one big one like on a desktop 💻), this idea 💡 largely would only make it worse. I would support it if it's optional and then disabled by default. --Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 11:15, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support As a preference though I'm used to "Right click and hit T on keyboard"(Chrome) to open links in new tab. (Laptop users may not have a middle button) Tigerzeng (talk) 16:05, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support I also support this as a preference / option, especially for folks who use an Apple mouse which does not have middle buttons FULBERT (talk) 19:11, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Most browsers let the user decide to open a link in a new tab if they want to. Almost no browser lets the user open a link in the current tab if the website wants it to open in a new tab. Don't make things easy for a few people at the cost of making them hard for most people. --Carnildo (talk) 23:26, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The middle click on your mouse can be configured to do exactly that (if it isn't the default already), if not just hold down Ctrl when clicking. Then there's the gadget solutions mentioned above... MER-C (talk) 01:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Strong oppose Let the user do whatever they want: in most browsers: left click for same tab, middle click for new tab. Also target="_blank" is a serious security issue that is not yet addressed by all browsers — Arkanosis ✉ 16:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Support As a user preference - both for external links, and for internal links. Yes, I can right click and open in a new tab, but it is hard to do this when using a touchscreen rather than a mouse. AlasdairW (talk) 23:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
