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Bug 70439 - VisualEditor/WikiEditor: Consistent terminology
VisualEditor/WikiEditor: Consistent terminology
Status: NEW
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
General (Other open bugs)
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2014-09-05 13:22 UTC by Eran Roz
Modified: 2014-09-05 13:22 UTC (History)
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Description Eran Roz 2014-09-05 13:22:03 UTC
The terminology between WikiEditor (aka "Advanced toolbar") and VisualEditor MUST be consistent so people will not get confused.

For example in VisualEditor there is "Cite" menu, while in WikiEditor it is called "Reference" (Cite options in enwiki is only a gadget). It is super important, so we can guide new editors with same terminology. If you don't like the old terminology in some cases - use new one, but fix the WikiEditor to use it too.


[Longer story]
Today I participated in a workshop for new editors. We told the new editors they should use either VE or classic wikitext, and gave them printed instructions what to do, and they got confused of it...

[The first time ever for me to open terminology bug, yay :)]

Feature request: use also the same icons so people will get into VE easier, and so we can write a shared help pages for both VE and Wikitext. [Again: Either use WikiEditor icons in VE or use VE icons in Wikieditor]

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