@Esanders Maybe as 'editing-citations' pack? Would that make sense from your POV?

Sounds good. The icon set in Cite seems more homogeneous at the moment.

@Esanders Do you also want to move

• citeArticle,
• book,
• journal and
• newspaper

over to that pack?

Change 431684 had a related patch set uploaded (by VolkerE; owner: VolkerE):
[oojs/ui@master] icons: Add 'editing-citation' pack

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/431684

Change 431684 merged by jenkins-bot:
[oojs/ui@master] icons: Add 'editing-citation' pack

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/431684

In T177847#4188808, @Volker_E wrote:

@Esanders Do you also want to move

• citeArticle,
• book,
• journal and
• newspaper

over to that pack?

Yes, upstreaming them from the Cite extension ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/master/modules/ve-cite/icons/ ) would be good…

That's partly what happened in above patch, when newly designed icons by Design team weren't available. We'll update integrated Cite icons ('referenceExisting', 'references', 'web') accordingly to icon design principles.

Proposal for the 3 updated icons (web, existing reference, references):

@RHo Thanks for the update!
A few notes:

• Reference and References RTL are probably not necessary and opposing our approaches with other similar icons as the bookmark is a right-hand and not RTL first thing in my understanding. We currently don't feature reference-rtl.
• Website: Option 2, 'browser' is my preference, as window represents web context less strongly
• References: in the one with book and reference icon, there's a lot going on in that icon. Although I understand the idea, I'm not sure it's working well as icon. On the other hand we are not building a clear visual connection between references and reference. Are books/library metaphor sufficient? I lean towards, yes.

From today's design meeting:

• @RHo identified that having both, 'reference' & 'quotes' in similar functionality might not be useful. Unclarity about how “quotations” icon for triggering citations dialog came into place. Reference is only used for basic form option of citations dialog in all of our codebase. Also, the quotations symbol is used in other editor context as blockquote icon. @Esanders, any historic insights?

New proposal with a few more options:

Per design review meeting with comments from @Volker @Pginer-WMF :

• Website icon - slight preference for option 1 since there it is more generic to not have the window bar icon on the LHS, and does not need a separate RTL version
• Reference icon - my preference is for option 3 which takes the existing cite icon used in VE but the additional brackets relates it back to "[ citation needed ]" and the square brackets used on references. + @Nirzar if you have any comments from working on VE before about this icon's recognizability, etc? This usability study mentions a participant thinking that the cite icon (on the wikitext toolbar) meant bookmark so perhaps there is something to not reusing the bookmark icon here...
• ReferenceS icon - my preference is for option 3, or option 4 (perhaps simplified further)
• Existing reference icon - would ideally like to not need a separate icon for Existing reference, so option 3 again

Incidentally @Volker_E - the wikitext toolbar is currently using the book icon instead of reference - should the correction be done as part of this ticket or a separate one?

@RHo For the last point on wikitext 2010 editor, that needs to be filed in a separate ticket.

Follow-up for WikiEditor 'reference' icon at T202463.