bobaroo wrote
...Having to learn another way of doing things, in this case right-clicking and choosing to open in new tab, is non-intuitive and an unnecessary step. Good programming would have obviously allowed a setting to open non-personal-wiki links in new tabs automatically ....
What is obvious to you may not be an adequate solution to others. The programmer might have had another use case in mind, or another work flow.
If it's any consolation, DokuWiki can be configured how to follow links. However, that seems to apply to the content of the wiki and not to the various plugins. I used to be capable of good programming, but I would not presume to know whether this was by design or a mere oversight.
Anyway, what's wrong with learning how to use your browser to its potential? It took me all of a few minutes to learn that my current browser uses either a middle-klick or a CONTROL-klick to open a link in a new tab. Hey, presto, there I am, using tens of websites much more conveniently. Writing your grumbles here took much longer than learning that.
Besides, I wonder what the use of sorting plugins by popularity is. In what way does it help me to know that one plugin has been more often installed or not installed, unless I know what kind of problems the other users were hoping to solve? Anyway, how do you measure popularity of a plugin?