https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50458
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Bug ID: 50458
Summary: VisualEditor: UI improvements to reference editing
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: jforres...@wikimedia.org
Reporter: oke...@wikimedia.org
CC: jforres...@wikimedia.org, krinklem...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 12691
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Screenshot1
There are, I think, some UI improvements to be made to the reference editor -
User:Popcornduff gets credit for these :).
When you first open the reference editor, you're presented with something like
screenshot 1, which asks you "What do you want to reference?" If the user is
coming to try and add a new reference, this is highly confusing - the first UI
element they're presented with prompts them to put time into a series of
actions that cannot possibly end with them finding what they want. The cue also
doesn't make clear to any user what the search bar is actually doing -
filtering existing references. It seems like the blurb here might need changing
to align it with what the search bar actually does; "search existing references
on this page"?
If you click "create new source", absolutely nothing happens - it's a
highlightable element, and after a bit you can puzzle out that it unlocks
"create reference", but it's not immediately clear. Still, you end up with it
highlighted (see screenshot2). The blurb in "insert reference" is rather
confusing; what am I inserting? I'm here to /add/ a new reference, I haven't
written it out yet. My suggestion would be to have "create new source" take you
straight to the source creation interface using a one-click mechanism, rather
than having it free up "insert no references".
Still, you click it, and you get to screenshot3, of a window tagged "reference
content". Quoth the user, "Is it reference the verb - am I referencing content
here? Or am I giving content to the reference?
What is the Options heading all about, and what does "Use this group" mean?
I have a little window here to type into. I'm not sure what to type. Do I just
write out my reference in Wikimarkup and click "Apply changes"? Or do I write
them out as if I'm writing a list of references at the end of an essay?
At this point I'm really disappointed. I was hoping to be given a complete list
of individual fields to fill out - a box for author, a box for date, a box for
date accessed, a box for the title, a box for the URL, and so on - and have
this generate the reference nicely for me. Instead, I seem to have the old
system in a confusing UI."
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