Change #1119699 abandoned by Esanders:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Include more tools in '+' menu

Reason:

squashed into I2422c127ec1f52295614e6cdf198eaf9b9064c52

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1119699

Change #1114761 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Add insert menu to MobileArticleTarget

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1114761

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Tool	Menu Location	Position	Expected Position
	+ menu	1st	1st
	+ menu	2nd	2nd
	+ menu	3rd	3rd
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	Within More sub-dropdown
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	not on the list
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	not on the list
	+ menu	Within More sub-dropdown	not on the list
	❗️Exclude for now	N/A	N/A
	❗️Exclude for now	N/A	N/A

Latest patch: https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/wikis/cd8e7b11f8/wiki/New_York#/editor/all

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Change #1133990 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1133990

Change #1134053 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.44.0-wmf.23] Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1134053

Change #1134053 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@wmf/1.44.0-wmf.23] Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1134053

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-04-03T21:00:34Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1134053|Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools (T385851)]], [[gerrit:1128374|VE: Enable mobile insert menu everywhere except top 20 mobile VE wikipedias (T388604)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-04-03T21:06:20Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> esanders, jforrester: Backport for [[gerrit:1134053|Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools (T385851)]], [[gerrit:1128374|VE: Enable mobile insert menu everywhere except top 20 mobile VE wikipedias (T388604)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Change #1133990 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Mobile insert menu: Exclude media and signature tools

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1133990

Re: User-notice please could someone provide a draft entry, and comment about the desired-timing, for Tech News? From a skim...

Timing-wise: it looks like this might deserve announcing on this coming Monday, with a "coming later this week" framing. -- Alternatively, it could be included on the Monday after (14 April) so that editors can immediately see and try out the new tools. -- Please confirm which you prefer.

Content-wise: I'd guess at something like this.
Please approve, or overhaul/replace/edit as needed.
Please add any appropriate documentation links.

• Starting later this week, editors using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the + button's drop-down menu. The new tools include buttons to add: references, templates, tables, reference lists, formulae, comments, hieroglyphs, and maps.

@Quiddity The above deployment was actually held up, so it won't be going out next week. Deployment date is still TBD. The announcement looks fine although I would change "The new tools include buttons to add" to "The new menu will include buttons to add" as strictly not all the tools are new (i.e. references).

@Quiddity Deployment is also unfortunately going out in phases, so you might need a "on some wikis" disclaimer. First phase is going to be "everything but the top 20 wikis".

These look good. However, the "insert" menu in the Gallery options tab has hidden text displayed:

I could be wrong but oo-ui-labelElement-invisible is missing. Did we mean for this to be an oo-ui-tool-title(like with link), not a oo-ui-labelElement-label

Will it be possible for volunteer developers to add custom tools/gadgets to this menu?

@Nemoralis Sure, in the same way as adding a tool anywhere else in the toolbars in VisualEditor. Basically: if you create a tool and set autoAddToCatchall on it, it'll wind up in that menu without you needing to do anything else. If you want more fiddly control over exactly where in the menu it appears you'd need to do something slightly more complicated.

@Nemoralis See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Gadgets/Add_a_tool -- which I might want to find time to update for the new hook structure from T355555, but looks like it'll work as-is.

Tech News - Just noting that I will wait for your confirmation about which week to include this. You can either ping me here/elsewhere, or move the task in the User-notice workboard, or edit the relevant week's Tech News directly.
And here's an updated final-draft (and question):

• Starting later this week, on all wikis except the largest 20, editors using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the + button's drop-down menu. The new menu will include buttons to add: references, templates, tables, reference lists, formulae, comments, hieroglyphs, and maps.

If we have any expected details about when it will be deployed at the remaining 20 wikis, that might be good to add. Thanks.

Tech News - Hello @Esanders, I am following up to know if this is ready for announcement in this week's tech news.

@Quiddity @UOzurumba still holding unfortunately.

In T385851#10767968, @Esanders wrote:

@Quiddity @UOzurumba still holding unfortunately.

Okay, thanks!

Test wiki on Patch demo by ESanders (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/wikis/6282b36ef4/w/

Test wiki on Patch demo by ESanders (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/wikis/62b116ed69/w/

Test wiki on Patch demo by ESanders (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

https://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/wikis/657a7089ca/w/

In T385851#10731890, @Quiddity wrote:

Tech News - Just noting that I will wait for your confirmation about which week to include this.

@Quiddity: could you please include a mention of the + menu deployment that will go out this week?

Proposed language here:
"Last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: hieroglyphs and code blocks. Deployment to remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June via T388605."

To start, the new menu will include options to add: hieroglyphs and code blocks.

@ppelberg and citations?

In T385851#10845517, @DLynch wrote:

To start, the new menu will include options to add: hieroglyphs and code blocks.

@ppelberg and citations?

Oh, yes. Good spot. I'm going to move the Tech/News language to the task description so we can iterate upon it (as needed).

Initial deployment per T388604 has happened.

Following alignment in team meeting. Releasing this from QA.

The Editing Team is scheduled to revisit the decision to deploy this feature as part of the deployment planning meeting scheduled for 28 Jan 2026.

In case we include a "+" (add) menu, I recommend including both Cite and Link within the "+" menu since both them are related to "add", leaving space to include the suggestions button there as proposed in T415589: [EPIC] Suggestion Mode: Introduce way to toggle Suggestion Mode ON/OFF.

Regarding the expanded menu, we could group the actions by using dividers to make it easier to find related options.

Another option we could include in this add menu is the Special characters currently used in desktop.

Another option we could include in this add menu is the Special characters currently used in desktop.

This tool doesn't currently work very well on mobile.

crossposting from from T400903#11763119 following a prompt from @bmartinezcalvo

i wanted to share some early learnings from the article guidance research project T414812! we knew that inserting headings (h2, h3, etc.) isn't currently possible in the mobile VE (without using wikitext syntax, eg. === for h3), and we assumed the article guidance features would be enough.

but it's looking like surfacing that kind of text formatting could actually be helpful too. sharing since you're exploring improvements to the mobile VE toolbar too!