Topic on VisualEditor/Feedback

Hello; I'm a fairly new user (< 1 year) and I'm motivated (and trying!) to improve some articles, but the VisualEditor citation tools are just not usable, and I really don't have the time to learn source editing. I know that you guys have a busy schedule, but I just wanted to leave this message here to let you know that it's a bottleneck, at least for me.

The main problem I am having with the tool is that shortened footnotes or similar are not supported, so I can't reference multiple pages from the same source, meaning I can't write the article. There are also problems with intuitive selection behaviour in reflist templates and all sorts of other stuff. Is there a "fix citation tools" task on the roadmap? I couldn't see one.

Anyway, I hope I'm not telling you things you already know. Thank you for making this tool; in a few years I'm sure Wikipedia will regain some new editors because of it.

Hi there. Thanks for stopping by to tell us your experience. The ability to name references is requested at bug 50568. In the meantime, you can still reference multiple pages from the same source easily, I think? Or at least, this took me just a few seconds. All I did was creating a new reference. Then I copied the content of this reference and pasted it into new ones (made in the same way), and added the detail about the pages (this is useful for more complex references created by templates, for example, because VE will retain links, style, etc. when you paste). If you want a bit of insight into the future of references in VE, please try en:User:Mvolz/veCiteFromURL :) Best,

User:Thennicke, When you say that "shortened footnotes are not supported", do you mean that this:

{{sfn|Smith|2010|p=15}}

is not supported, or do you mean that this:

<ref>Smith (2010).  p. 15</ref>

is not supported? Or something else?