Thread:Chernabogue/@comment-3236835-20141230130640

Hi Chernabogue.

I have been wondering if you know if there's a possibility to make external links to open in new tabs instead of using the same one. I've noticed that when a link opens in the same tab, it sometimes drives the user away from the wiki, or at least it's a bit annoying having to lose the article one was reading only because a link was clicked (in my opinion).

I don't know if there's a way to do that through wikitext (if there is, please tell me how). All I could find was achieving this by tweaking the LocalSettings.php file and adding the following line:

$wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank';

...with a value of "true" or "false". More info here: CLICK ME

This is just a suggestion, of course, but if more people like it this way, maybe it could be discussed and implemented in the future.

Thanks for reading, bye! 