diff --git a/VisualEditor.php b/VisualEditor.php
index cadfc2456d..153e023b46 100644
--- a/VisualEditor.php
+++ b/VisualEditor.php
@@ -1147,6 +1147,8 @@ $wgResourceModules += array(
 		),
 		'messages' => array(
 			'visualeditor-annotationbutton-linknode-tooltip',
+			'visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-external',
+			'visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-internal',
 			'visualeditor-linkinspector-description-new-page',
 			'visualeditor-linkinspector-description-redirect',
 			'visualeditor-linkinspector-illegal-title',
diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index 4dff96751f..3e749bc99d 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -1173,6 +1173,8 @@
 			],
 			"messages": [
 				"visualeditor-annotationbutton-linknode-tooltip",
+				"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-external",
+				"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-internal",
 				"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-new-page",
 				"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-redirect",
 				"visualeditor-linkinspector-illegal-title",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
index 5cd0fa4150..1fc483b312 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/en.json
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@
 	"visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-mw-heading5": "Sub-heading 3",
 	"visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-mw-heading6": "Sub-heading 4",
 	"visualeditor-languages-tool": "Languages",
+	"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-external": "External link",
+	"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-internal": "Search articles",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-new-page": "page does not exist yet",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-redirect": "redirect to $1",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-illegal-title": "Invalid page title",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
index d2e16d0acb..b1d70ccb63 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@
 	"visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-mw-heading5": "Item in the MediaWiki formatting dropdown for a level 5 heading (sub-section)\n{{Related|Visualeditor-formatdropdown}}",
 	"visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-mw-heading6": "Item in the MediaWiki formatting dropdown for a level 6 heading (sub-section)\n{{Related|Visualeditor-formatdropdown}}",
 	"visualeditor-languages-tool": "Tool for opening the languages links section of the meta dialog.\n{{Identical|Language}}",
+	"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-external": "Button label for entering an external link.",
+	"visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-internal": "Button label for entering an internal link.",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-new-page": "Description label for a new page in the link inspector.",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-description-redirect": "Description label for a redirect in the link inspector.",
 	"visualeditor-linkinspector-illegal-title": "Warning that the entered text is not a valid page title.",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js b/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
index a1b08a1ba9..9aab2efd3e 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget.js
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ ve.ui.MWLinkTargetInputWidget = function VeUiMWLinkTargetInputWidget( config ) {
 	this.linkTypeSelect = new OO.ui.ButtonSelectWidget( {
 		classes: [ 've-ui-mwLinkTargetInputWidget-linkTypeSelect' ]
 	} ).addItems( [
-		new OO.ui.ButtonOptionWidget( { framed: false, data: 'internal', label: 'Search articles' } ),
-		new OO.ui.ButtonOptionWidget( { framed: false, data: 'external', label: 'External link' } )
+		new OO.ui.ButtonOptionWidget( { framed: false, data: 'internal', label: ve.msg( 'visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-internal' ) } ),
+		new OO.ui.ButtonOptionWidget( { framed: false, data: 'external', label: ve.msg( 'visualeditor-linkinspector-button-link-external' ) } )
 	] ).connect( this, {
 		select: 'onLinkTypeSelectSelect',
 		choose: 'onLinkTypeSelectChoose'