As an editor who often corrects citations of the references section, I want to easily find and edit citations, without the need to switch from VE to the source editor.
- Let's assume I have to edit citations in article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna (I worked with Version https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klarna&oldid=1263881809).
- Open the visual editor of the article.
- I want to correct internet citations containing "http://techcrunch.com" or "spiegel.de" to correct their link labeling.
- If I use action "find and replace" (Ctrl-F) to search for Citation URLs, I will find nothing.
- Instead, I wish to open a new action "find within references and open citation" to correct a certain citation.
- Workarounds
- Use source editor to correct citations: I don't want to use the source code editor or even switch between the source code editor and the VE several times.
- Use search action of cite functionality: This is helpful to find out the number of the footnote I am looking for, but I want to directly edit the citation then, not re-use the citation.
The VE is more comfortable than the source editor even when correcting, and I make less careless mistakes with VE, so it would be a benefit to fluently find and correct citations with VE only.
The re-use action of the tool to add a citation is very near to the functionality intended here, but it doesn't allow to simply edit a citation of the hit list of the citation search.