The problem here is probably going to be not the inline editing, but rather preventing the user from entering funny stuff into the gallery captions, like tables or other galleries. @Esanders says we don't really have a way to do that, but he might be working on one?

In T190224#4067182, @matmarex wrote:

The problem here is probably going to be not the inline editing, but rather preventing the user from entering funny stuff into the gallery captions, like tables or other galleries. @Esanders says we don't really have a way to do that, but he might be working on one?

We enabled caption editing for block image captions without disabling adding lists (which aren't supported by Parsoid) and it hasn't seemed to be a problem. In an ideal world VE would prevent this, or Parsoid/wikitext would be able to handle it, but it seems to be rare enough that I don't think it needs to be a blocker.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Editing/Editable_gallery_captions_in_Visual_Editor

Change 888313 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Gallery: Make ve.ce.Gallery(Image)CaptionNode active (editable)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/888313

Test wiki created on Patch demo by ESanders (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/bd25812a96/wiki/Gallery?veaction=edit

After:

This is currently blocked on T329662, which should be resolved soon.

Test wiki on Patch demo by ESanders (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/bd25812a96/w/

Change 888313 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Gallery: Make ve.ce.Gallery(Image)CaptionNode active (editable)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/888313

Test page: https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Gallery?veaction=edit

Noted at:

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech%2FNews%2F2023%2F14&diff=prev&oldid=24805104&diffmode=source
• https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023%2FResults&diff=prev&oldid=24805116&diffmode=source

Thanks for adding to Tech News!
IIUC from this comment above: "ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.3; 2023-04-03)."
the feature will be riding the deployment train next week.
Hence I've moved it in Tech News into the "Changes this week" section.
Please let me know if I'm wrong, or bump it into next week's edition if that's needed.

Ah, I missed an email. I will bump it to next week's edition. :)