Visual Editor's toolbar icon for inserting a citation is not intuitive. Suggest changing.
Currently:
Possible replacement:
Entire toolbar for context:
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change CitoidInspectorTool's icon to reference | mediawiki/extensions/Citoid | master | +1 -1 |
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OOUI has a bunch of citation-related icons that all seem generally more suitable.
Or, at least, none of those scream "blockquote" to me.
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Change #1123023 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Change CitoidInspectorTool's icon to reference
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During the qualitative usability tests WMDE conducted as part of the work they are doing on Sub-References, they too observed people who are new to editing Wikipedia unclear about what to press/click to add a reference:
P2 (mobile website on desktop) was unable to find ‘Cite’ and even explored the source editor, before declaring they would have given up if this wasn’t a test. They needed facilitator intervention to find ‘Cite’.