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Show name of character in mouseover popup of "insert special character" gadget on English Wikipedia
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Description

For example, on this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dash&action=edit
there's a row of hotlinked characters to the right of the "Insert" pull-down that looks like this:

– — ° ′ ″ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · §

Hovering over any of them produces a pop-up with the text "Click on the character or tag to insert it into the edit window".

The idea of this task is to include the name of the character itself in the popup. This would make it a lot easier, for example, to tell the difference between an endash, a minus sign, and an emdash, which look very similar in certain fonts.

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Show name of character in "insert special character" popup to Show name of character in "insert special character" mouseover popup.Jul 16 2018, 9:59 AM

One benefit would be to educate editors that the proper characters to indicate arcminutes or arcseconds is not the apostrophe or double quote respectively.

It's neither, they are all separate systems and the one described in the original task description is the English Wikipedia specific
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-charinsert-core.js

Aklapper renamed this task from Show name of character in "insert special character" mouseover popup to Show name of character in mouseover popup of "insert special character" gadget on English Wikipedia.EditedJul 16 2018, 11:45 AM
Aklapper closed this task as Invalid.
Aklapper edited projects, added WMF-General-or-Unknown; removed WikiEditor, CharInsert.

User scripts, gadgets and templates are local features and managed independently on each wiki. Phabricator/Maniphest is used for MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, or server configuration. In this case you could contact the author of the script/gadget (see "View History") or discuss on the talk page of the gadget.
In general this is a matter to discuss and fix on the local wiki and not handled in Phabricator/Maniphest until https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121470 gets solved.

(PS: Thanks TheDJ!)