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Add VisualEditor and 2017 wikitext editor support to ProveIt
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Support to VisualEditor and New text editor.

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Add VisualEditor and NewTextEditor support to Add VisualEditor and 2017 wikitext editor support to ProveIt.Oct 26 2016, 8:09 PM

I don't think we should be supporting ProveIt given we have Citoid. If there are any features in PI that are missing in Citoid those should be filed against Citoid.

I don't think we should be supporting ProveIt given we have Citoid. If there are any features in PI that are missing in Citoid those should be filed against Citoid.

ProveIt can to show a full list of references which used on a page.

Cite & Citoid already do this:

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@Esanders You cant edit sources from this window and you cant find selected source in the text. You can only past the selected source.

So you want a way to quickly navigate and edit existing references ?

So you want a way to quickly navigate and edit existing references ?

Yes, you are right, I want it.

@Esanders My guess is that the[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Citation_tool | visual editor citation tool ]] will not be supported in current wikitext editor which will be around least couple of years even if not longer and i think that the main value of Proveit is to get new stuff (like support for autogenerated refs) to current editor. Also in coder point of view the citoid is backend and Proveit editing interface and most likely Proveit when it is developed more will be using Citoid too for getting data for references. Least this is my guess.

@Esanders My guess is that the[[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Citation_tool | visual editor citation tool ]] will not be supported in current wikitext editor

Correct.

which will be around least couple of years even if not longer

Definitely.

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Also in coder point of view the citoid is backend and Proveit editing interface

Well, yes, citoid is the back-end service but Citoid is the front-end code. Yay naming. :-)

The new wikitext editor already has a native citation manager. True it lacks some feature ProveIt has (and also has several ProveIt lacks) but the best way to get those missing features would be by improving the native citation manager rather than porting ProveIt.