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Buttons don't fit on the context menus in some languages
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The box that you see when you select a chemical formula has two buttons, which are "Edit" and "Quick edit" in English. In some languages, the box is too small to contain show the full label:

Shown in German, Russian, English, and qqx (which I need to see on occasion, even if nobody else does):

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Whatamidoing-WMF renamed this task from Buttons don't fit in some languages to Buttons don't fit on the context menus in some languages.Mar 30 2017, 5:01 PM

Can we file this upstream with the Council for German Orthography?

This is mostly "convince translators to use brief terms", I feel.

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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR1: Releases on the VisualEditor board.