It is possible to have a tooltip that will tell you what a reference is when you hover over the number in edit mode, as it currently does in viewing? It is inconvenient to editors to have to go into the references mode to view the source while editing.
(Request from En Wikipedia)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Reference_Dialog
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50110
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Mvolz | T62768 Cite: Auto-filled references based on destination URL / DOI etc. | |||
| Resolved | • TrevorParscal | T52768 VisualEditor: Implement a better version of enwiki's reference pop-up for very easy reference inserting |
When cite web is used, webpage title, and access date should be filled
automatically for 1 click web citations.
The bug as was written is the highest priority enhancement in VisualEditor and we've been working on it since October.
The change in title and comment 3 reflect a further ambition for this area which will be addressed once this bug is fixed, and should be split off at some point.
This has been highest priority for four months now...
Does that still reflect reality?
Change 119913 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Ultra-mega-hyper-citation editing on crack