868003 - When URL in the link editor is a full URL on the same site, make it site-relative instead

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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Right now, if I paste a full URL into the link editor's "URL" box, such as "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Project:MDN/Contributing/Page_types", that entire thing is saved as the URL. Let's shorten them automatically to "/en-US/docs/Project:MDN/Contributing/Page_types".

What problems would this solve?
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Mostly this makes the pages smaller. I suspect there are other benefits, too, but this is the main one.

Who would use this?
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All editors that paste URLs (which is most of us, I think).

What would users see?
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No real difference.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Paste a URL into the URL field, have it shortened if appropriate.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

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