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Bug 50171 - VisualEditor: Re-label the group UI element in the reference dialog to explain what it does
VisualEditor: Re-label the group UI element in the reference dialog to explai...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2013-06-25 12:22 UTC by This, that and the other (TTO)
Modified: 2014-06-26 23:13 UTC (History)
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Description This, that and the other (TTO) 2013-06-25 12:22:08 UTC
In the Reference editor we have two fields:

"Re-use by this name"
"Use this group"

These names are useless for new editors (too cryptic and unclear - what is "re-use"? a verb? referring to what?) and also unhelpful for established users (they need to know that these are totally identical to the name="" and group="" attributes). It is also not clear that they are only occasionally needed.

Something simpler, like "Reference name (optional)" and "Reference group (optional)" could be better. 

Same in the Reference list editor:

"Use this group" -> "Display references belonging to this group (optional)"
Comment 1 WhatamIdoing 2013-06-29 09:39:20 UTC
There is also a request in that discussion about whether "Transclusion" could be renamed to something in plain English, like "Templates".
Comment 2 James Forrester 2013-07-01 15:52:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> There is also a request in that discussion about whether "Transclusion" could
> be renamed to something in plain English, like "Templates".

The problem is that they aren't just templates - there are also magic words and parser functions as well, like Wikidata invocations or other oddities that MediaWiki supports. Lumping them all in as templates makes things much harder to explain in documentation.

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