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Remember user's last tab preference
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Users will find it frustrating to need to keep clicking the 'Manual' tab if they don't want to use Citoid's Automatic tab. If a user adds a reference via Citoid, it should remember that preference and default to the last used tab.

This works correctly on Wikipedia, but isn't yet configured in the Wikidata version.

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Samwalton9-WMF created this task.

Users will find it frustrating to need to keep clicking the 'Manual' tab if they don't want to use Citoid's Automatic tab.

Is 'Manual' not going to remain the default?

The plan was to have the automatic be the default in the long run.

Mvolz lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Mar 26 2020, 10:01 AM

lowering to medium due to covid related switch in priorities.

Change 691200 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; author: Mvolz):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Set user's tab preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/691200

Change 690361 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; author: Mvolz):

[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Set user tab preference for wikibase module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/690361

Change 691200 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Set user's reference tab preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/691200

Change 690361 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Set user tab preference for wikibase module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/690361