Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Named references
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This is a Wikipedia project page for those interested in the topic of allowing
Currently, VE automatically adds numeric ref names with a colon prefix, i.e., ":0", ":1", ":2", and so on. There has long been interest in having VE support
The main project page for VisualEditor is Wikipedia:VisualEditor, which has numerous subpages. There are similar pages on MediaWiki, starting with mw:VisualEditor. In general, the set of MediaWiki pages are more up to date, and WMF members tend to look at and possibly respond at the pages there more than at Wikipedia.
If you find a bug or other new problem, please raise a Phabricator ticket to report it, after first searching open Phabricator tickets about VisualEditor to make sure it hasn't been reported already.
Tools
Tools available to mitigate the problem include:
- diff, and if all looks good, you can Publish the changes.
How you can help
You can help, by finding articles having
You can use an
Click any result, to view an article that could use improvement with RefRenamer.
this page to generate a different list of articles from the link, every time you purge.History
A 2019 wishlist proposal to allow the user to name references was rejected for being too complex while the foundation proposed an alternate proposal of better automatic reference names that could be accepted if submitted in another wishlist survey.
See also
Wikipedia (Help, and Project):
- WP:NAMEDREFS)
- Help:VisualEditor
- Help:VisualEditor#Using standard cite templates
- Help:Wikitext#References and citing sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor, a how-to guide
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/FAQ
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback
WikiMedia
- mw:VisualEditor – home page for VE on Mediawiki
- mw:Help:VisualEditor/FAQ
- mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Editing references
- mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Re-using an existing reference
- mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
- mw:wiki/2017 wikitext editor, editing wikicode from VE
Meta
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Editing/VisualEditor
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Citations/VisualEditor: Allow references to be named
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/VisualEditor should use human-like names for references
- m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/VisualEditor should use proper names for references
- m:Community Tech/Allow references to be named in VisualEditor
Discussions (in any project)
- mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog/Archive 1#Named references (2013)
- Help talk:VisualEditor#Ref names (2016–2021)
- Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 40#Tech Talk on Zotero and citations (2016)
- Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 47#Visual Editor and Numerical reference names (2018)
Phabricator Report VE bugs in Phabricator: here. (Ticket statuses as of 07:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC); non-exhaustive list)
⟶ VE Project overview page to track all VE issues
- T52568 (2013-07-02) open, low – VisualEditor: Be able to name references manually in the reference dialog
- T92432 (2015-03-11) open, low – Come up with a better way to auto-label references
- T243300 (2020-01-21) closed, resolved – Spike: Investigate Named References in VE
- T245199 (2020-02-13) open, needs triage – Named References in VE: Determine Potential Design Options
- T312050 (2022-07-04) open, needs triage – VisualEditor changed reference names when reusing/copying references
- T323419 (2022-11-18) open, needs triage – VE spontaneously adds numeric names to refs in sections not touched by a user edit