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Link dialog: change "Label" field title to "Text"
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Description

Testers at Wikimania were confused by what "Label" meant, especially non-English speakers.

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Comparative analysis:

GDocs ("text")LibreOffice ("text")Word online ("display text")
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The message is also used on desktop, along with a button "Change label", so unless we create a new message these would have to change to "Text" and "Change text" respectively:

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Change 532478 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Link inspector: Change "label" messages to "text"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532478

The message is also used on desktop, along with a button "Change label", so unless we create a new message these would have to change to "Text" and "Change text" respectively:

Documenting a conversation @Esanders and I had earlier:

  • These copy changes will apply to both mobile and desktop
  • On desktop, the "Change label" button will be changed to "Change text"

Change 532478 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Link inspector: Change "label" messages to "text"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532478

Change 532727 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (c6d271fa5)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532727

Change 532727 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (c6d271fa5)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532727

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