https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61434
Bug ID: 61434
Summary: Avoid mentioning wikicode on MediaWiki error messages
(this confuses users who use Visual Editor instead of
wikicode)
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MediaWiki integration
Assignee: krinklem...@gmail.com
Reporter: mybugs.m...@gmail.com
CC: jforres...@wikimedia.org, jh...@wikimedia.org,
krinklem...@gmail.com, roan.katt...@gmail.com,
ryasm...@wikimedia.org, tpars...@wikimedia.org
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Mobile Platform: ---
Consider VisualEditor as the default editing method, and suppose you are a new
user arriving at one of the articles currently listed under
[[Category:Pages with missing references list]]
(or its equivalents in other languages).
Somewhere in the page there will be messages such as these:
* There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a
{{reflist}} template (see the help page).
* There are <ref group=$1> tags on this page, but the references will not show
without a {{reflist|group=$1}} template (see the help page).
But since your few edits were made using VisuaEditor, you have no idea what are
"<ref>", "<ref group=$1>" and "{{reflist|group=$1}}".
There are many other messages like that which are exposed to (inexperienced)
users (either by MediaWiki core or one of its extensions). They should try to
describe the problem avoiding talking about the wiki syntax, which will not
make sense if VisualEditor is the only way someone is able to edit.
This bug report was inspired by the following feedback:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Editor_Visual/Comentários?oldid=38180789#fonte.2C_pede_sempre.
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