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This might not still happen after recent changes. If so we can reconsider it again.

I am looking into a way to fix this but it indeed seems it may not work.

linkstoexternal has just been disabled (by placing it in a 5th richness level) for now.

> [@Universal-Omega](https://github.com/Universal-Omega): To reverse the "`com.example`" fragment back into "`example.com`", one might try to look into [this September 2014 StackOverflow solution](https://stackoverflow.com/a/25950801) involving PHP's `explode()` (i.e. `explode('.', $str)`, where `$str =...

> [@Routhwick](https://github.com/Routhwick) [@Universal-Omega](https://github.com/Universal-Omega) we can use the MediaWiki's [LinkFilter::makeIndexes()](https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/1.43.0/php/classMediaWiki_1_1ExternalLinks_1_1LinkFilter.html#aefb0679df1b0e1d6d50b298438a3db16), I think it's the most reliable solution as it's used to store external links in the database. > > However, I'm...

Thank you! I'll take a look at the patch probably tomorrow.

Just an FYI #459 fully fixes this restoring full prior behavior of `linkstoexternal` and fixing `addexternallink` and `%EXTERNALLINK%`. However, that will not be released in a stable release until DPL4...

I would like to also note here, the above patch does remove linkstoexternalpath and linkstoexternaldomain restoring the other way fully, if anyone encounters issues or edge cases with linkstoexternal again,...

We don't need to deploy this file anymore.

> [@Universal-Omega](https://github.com/Universal-Omega) can you provide some reproduction steps? Linking to some parts in a different code base is somewhat helpful but would require a lot of work from us. >...