You could just use a JavaScript hack On Monday, January 7, 2013, Geri wrote:

Yeah, I saw that.  How hard would it be to write a little tag extension where I call whatever wiki code is usually used to parse "[[... ]]" to get an HTML anchor and add the "target='_blank'" myself? Thanks, al ________________________________ From: Geri <gerx03(a)gmail.com> To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to insert internal link that opens new tab? Hello, The easiest way to do it is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget Not the best solution though as it modifies every external URL. Geri 2013.01.07. 23:01:55 dátumon Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com> írta:

Thanks for the code. /Al ________________________________ From: Sal Quintanilla &lt;salquint(a)gmail.com&gt; To: 'Al Johnson' &lt;alj62888(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>; 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>; 'Geri' &lt;gerx03(a)gmail.com&gt; Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 3:43 PM Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] How to insert internal link that opens new tab? About this hard if you added this to MediaWiki:Common.js /** Popup links * Use <span class="pops">[http://www.wikipedia.com Wikipedia]</span> *  or <span class="pops">[[Homepage|Home]]</span> **/ addOnloadHook( function() {     var pops = function( elems ) {         for (var i=0; i<elems.length; i++) {             if ( !(' '+elems[i].className+' ').match( / pops / ) ) continue;             var anchs = elems[i].getElementsByTagName('a');             for (var j=0; j<anchs.length; j++) anchs[j].target = '_blank';         }     };     var bc = document.getElementById('bodyContent');     var tags = ['span', 'div', 'table', 'td', 'th'];     for (var i=0; i<tags.length; i++) pops( bc.getElementsByTagName( tags[i] ) ); } ); -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Al Johnson Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 2:24 PM To: Geri; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to insert internal link that opens new tab? Yeah, I saw that.  How hard would it be to write a little tag extension where I call whatever wiki code is usually used to parse "[[... ]]" to get an HTML anchor and add the "target='_blank'" myself? Thanks, al ________________________________ From: Geri &lt;gerx03(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Al Johnson &lt;alj62888(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to insert internal link that opens new tab? Hello, The easiest way to do it is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget Not the best solution though as it modifies every external URL. Geri 2013.01.07. 23:01:55 dátumon Al Johnson &lt;alj62888(a)yahoo.com&gt; írta: click the link and then later return to the form page to finish filling it out.  I would rather them use a separate tab for the search rather than using the browsers 'Back' button which resets some of the form fields. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Thanks!  I'm going to try this as it looks quick and easy. ________________________________ From: Leonard Wallentin &lt;leo.wallentin(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Al Johnson &lt;alj62888(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: Geri &lt;gerx03(a)gmail.com&gt; Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to insert internal link that opens new tab? You could add the target attribute to the extension http://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkAttributes (or I can do it later this week, if it helps). /Leo Den 7 jan 2013 23.24 skrev "Al Johnson" &lt;alj62888(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>: Yeah, I saw that.  How hard would it be to write a little tag extension where I call whatever wiki code is usually used to parse "[[... ]]" to get an HTML anchor and add the "target='_blank'" myself?