Some of the issues we're working on during the #wmde-references-focusarea affect how user can interact with the #visualeditor.
**Assumptions:**
- Users don't use the reference re-use dialog in VE because it's faulty and incomplete in some cases.
- Fixing the issues around the re-use dialog will increase it's usage.
- Fixing use cases about the usage of references in VE will increase how people add and re-use references there.
**Indicators:**
- Users use the cite and re-use dialogs more often per session.
- Users use the cite and re-use dialogs more successfully.
- Users will less often need to switch between Wikitext mode and visual mode per session.
**Measurements:**
[] Opens of the cite dialog
[] Opens of the re-use tab
[] Actively uses of the re-use dialog ( defined by interacting with the search box/scrolling through the list )
[] Successfully adds of a reference re-use using the dialog to the VE document
[] Successfully adds of a //new// reference using the dialog to the VE document
[] Left the re-use dialog without adding/re-using a reference after actively using it
[] Left the cite dialog without adding a reference
[] Make sure we have a baseline for the number of edit sessions with VE to normalize the above values to
[] Switches between VE and WT editing per edit session.
**Open question:**
- Can we measure how often users use C&P to re-use a reference?
**Also consider:**
- ~~Was the "citation tool" in use, or the plain cite dialog?~~ ( irrelevant here )
- ~~Track edit session ID~~ ( we just want to compare raw numbers )
- VE events are normally sampled heavily.