I really, really don't think that it was ever _declared_ as deprecated, in any RFC or major architecture document . If it was, I'd like to read where. That said, in practice Visual Editor treats characters that come immediately after links differently: 1. If the caret is at the end of link, but inside the highlighted link area, then it becomes [[Link|Links]]. It's a bit longer syntax, but functionally it is what the user usually wanted to happen, so it's not a problem. It is, in a way, a little step towards the de-facto deprecation on "[[Link]]s". There is a Phab task about it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50463 . 2. If the caret is outside the highlighted link area, it becomes [[Link]]<nowiki/>s. Technically it's kind of correct, but I went over hundreds of edits where this happened in Hebrew and English Wikipedias, and in _none_ of these edits it was what the user actually intended. It might be different for other languages, and if there are such languages, I'd like to know what they are. There's a whole family of Phab tasks around it, such as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39939 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128060 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129778 and more. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47126 is not totally unresolvable. It's more like blocked by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 . -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2016-07-27 10:48 GMT+03:00 Bináris &lt;wikiposta(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: trick it:" _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l