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Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar
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Hello,
I noticed some time ago, that the button allowing to easily add <ref> tags to pages in the Page namespace to the text was removed from the common toolbar... (the one showing a book and bookmark - see https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Aide:Barre_d%E2%80%99outils#Barre_d%E2%80%99outils)

If I understand very well that Wikipedias do not really need it any more with the sourcing tools, it is a great loss to Wikisources, that used it to easily insert footnotes into the text of edited pages. In some 19th century books, there can be as many as 5 to 10 footnotes in a single page.

The disappearance of this button thus forces us to manually tag it in the text, with possible errors, of course. Even added to Edittools list, it means a double manipulation, to change the menu to access it. This can be such a nightmare on some books...

Is there any way we could recover this button that was so useful, in Wikisource, maybe through an option, a gadget, something ? Pretty pretty please...

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I'm not sure if I'm seeing the issue here correctly. When I edit the page you link to above (or any other page on any Wikisource) it has a 'bookmark' icon which inserts <ref></ref>. Is this not what you're talking about? Or is it not working or not visible to you?

Editing-Aide-Barre-d’outils-Wikisource.png (227×527 px, 25 KB)

The problem is that button is not in the Page namespace - random example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(German_II).djvu/1&action=edit

That button is in the main and Author namespaces, though.

Oh yes! Sorry, I should've checked Page pages.

I wonder if this is related to the move of that button from WikiEditor to Cite. It looks like it's only showing on 'subject' pages.

The button was present on July 6 2023 and was gone on July 10 2023. Noticed on French Wikisource.

Change 964612 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; author: Samwilson):

[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Load WikiEditor ref toolbar button on ProofreadPage pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/964612

The problem is that button is not in the Page namespace - random example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(German_II).djvu/1&action=edit

That button is in the main and Author namespaces, though.

Yes, sorry :)

The disparition is in the Page: namespace, which is the main editing place (on frwikisource, at least). I never add refs in Author's page, and very rarely in Main.

Change 980774 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; author: Samwilson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ProofreadPage@master] Add the Cite toolbar button to Page pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/980774

Change 964612 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Load WikiEditor ref toolbar button on other content types

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/964612

Change 980774 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ProofreadPage@master] Add the Cite toolbar button to Page pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/980774