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[SPIKE] Investigate current capacity to automatically place references
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Description

In its current form, T325711 proposes a user experience for the initial reference Edit Check that will NOT require people to manually select where within the article they are editing the reference they would like to add will be placed.

This task involves the work with investigating what – if any – technical capacity currently exists that would enable us to support a user experience like the one described above.

Decision(s) to be made

  • 1. Initially, will the Editing Team continue investing in implementing a UX that does NOT require people to manually decide – on a per edit basis – where within the article they are editing the reference they would like to add will be placed?

Open question(s)

  • A. What – if any – technical capacity currently exists that would enable us to empower projects across languages to decide where within articles the references people are attempting to add could be automatically placed? E.g. at the end of a sentence, in the middle of a sentence, after quotation marks, etc.

Done

  • All Decision(s) to be made are documented
  • Answers to all Open question(s) are documented

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Event Timeline

Restricted Application changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Spike". · View Herald TranscriptJan 23 2023, 8:20 PM
ppelberg moved this task from To Triage to Triaged on the VisualEditor board.

Meeting notes from today:

  • Blocked on sentence splitting. (T324363)

@dchan, based on what we've learned about investigating and implementing sentence splitting so far, do you think it's reasonable for us (the Editing Team) to assume that the approach we've converged on for automatically placing references will scale to all languages?

I ask the above wanting to know what – if any – further investigation we might need to do for us to be able to answer the above and subsequently, decide whether we can continue depending on the current approach we've implemented.

Meta: I'm removing this task from the Editing Team's current workboard as it does not require resolution at this time.