Wikimedia

VisualEditor: Make editing sortkeys easier in the Categories dialog by using the article title as the default value

This task is about VisualEditor. See its user guide for general information.

Current behavior:

  1. Go to Categories page
  2. Determine that the sort key is missing
  3. Click on it. See the (fake) name of the article disappear.
  4. Think, um, how exactly was that spelled again?

Desired behavior:

  1. Go to Categories page
  2. Determine that the sort key is missing
  3. Click on it. The name of the article does not disappear from the text field.
  4. Edit the sort key.

You are expected to provide a patch in Wikimedia Gerrit. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial for how to set up Git and Gerrit.

Task tags

  • mediawiki
  • visualeditor
  • javascript

Students who completed this task

Jan Rosa

Task type

  • code Code
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2018