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**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): I think it would be great time to add a Duplicate feature to references when editing with VE. {F57281443} (new action is drawn in red-orange; I don't mean that color should actually be red-orange though :)) So what I'm proposing is a new duplicate feature in VE that works more or less like so: # VE-Edit article. # Click on any ref. # Click on a new "Duplicate" action. ## If you selected <nowiki><ref name="abc"/> it would create a new ref with some new name: <ref name=":1">...content of name=abc...</ref></nowiki> ## If you selected <nowiki><ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</ref> it would create a new subref: <ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</ref></nowiki> This would help me a lot and I also know other people that struggle with duplicating references (also for reasons other then subrefs/pages). **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution): # I want to create a 2nd subref with different pages. # I want to create a 2nd ref to a different book of same author; duplication would save me some work I think. Currently to duplicate a reference you have to: # Open another browser tab with a 2nd article. # VE-Edit the 2nd article. # Go back to original, 1st article. # Copy from 1st to 2nd. # Copy back from 2nd to 1st. Current procedure is very hard to discover and even then it takes some setup to execute... **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Duplicating refs with VE could be much easier (and much, much more discoverable). So implementing this duplication will make it easier to add some of the references for all users using VE. And will also help in adoption of subrefs feature.

**Feature summary**: Add a duplicate feature to references in VisualEditor. {F57281443} (new action is drawn in red-orange; doesn't mean that color should actually be red-orange though :)) Proposed workflow: # Edit an article using VisualEditor # Click on any reference # Click on a new "Duplicate" action # If you selected <ref name="abc"/> it would create a new ref with some new name: <ref name=":1">...content of name=abc...</ref> **Use case(s)**: * Use an existing reference as a "template" for creating a new one (e.g. when a user want's to re-use certain formatting styles) * Use an existing reference to create a similar (but not identical) reference, e.g. different edition or page number Currently to duplicate a reference you have to: # Open another browser tab with a 2nd article. # VE-Edit the 2nd article. # Go back to original, 1st article. # Copy from 1st to 2nd. # Copy back from 2nd to 1st. Current procedure is very hard to discover and even then it takes some setup to execute... **Benefits**: * Changing only one instance of a re-used reference in VisualEditor is not possible currently (except when using the workaround described above) * Duplicating references in VisualEditor could be much easier (and much, much more discoverable) * Implementing a duplication feature will make referencing workflows easier for VisualEditor-users **Other information**: [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing|Sub-referencing]] implemented a feature to address this need: {T406461} (and T406454)

**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where): I think it would be great time to aAdd a Dduplicate feature to references when editing with VEin VisualEditor. {F57281443} (new action is drawn in red-orange; I don'tdoesn't mean that color should actually be red-orange though :)) So what I'm pProposing is a new duplicate feature in VE thatsed works more or less like so:flow: # VE-# Edit an article. # Click on any ref. using VisualEditor # Click on a new "Duplicate" action.ny reference ## If you selected <nowiki><ref name="abc"/> it would create a new ref with some new name: <ref name=":1">...content of name=abc...</ref></nowiki> Click on a new "Duplicate" action ### If you selected <nowiki><ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</refname="abc"/> it would create a new subref: <ref extends="Miller">Page 23.</ref></nowiki> This would help me a lot and I also know other people that struggle with duplicating references (also for reasons other then subrefs/pages). **Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):ref with some new name: <ref name=":1">...content of name=abc...</ref> # I want to create a 2nd subref with different pages.**Use case(s)**: * Use an existing reference as a "template" for creating a new one (e.g. when a user want's to re-use certain formatting styles) # I want* Use an existing reference to create a 2nd ref to a different book of same author;similar (but not identical) reference, e.g. duplication would save me some work I think.different edition or page number Currently to duplicate a reference you have to: # Open another browser tab with a 2nd article. # VE-Edit the 2nd article. # Go back to original, 1st article. # Copy from 1st to 2nd. # Copy back from 2nd to 1st. Current procedure is very hard to discover and even then it takes some setup to execute... **Benefits** (why should this be implemented?): Duplicating refs with VE* Changing only one instance of a re-used reference in VisualEditor is not possible currently (except when using the workaround described above) * Duplicating references in VisualEditor could be much easier (and much, much more discoverable). * Implementing a duplication feature will make referencing workflows easier for VisualEditor-users So implementing this duplication will make it easier to add some of the references for all users using VE. And will also help in adoption of subrefs feature.**Other information**: [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing|Sub-referencing]] implemented a feature to address this need: {T406461} (and T406454)