Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Allow table columns and rows to be freely movable in the Visual Editor

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Allow table columns and rows to be freely movable in the Visual Editor

Problem: I often work on translating articles from en.wiki and whenever there is a table that's sorted alphabetically, I have to manually move each row item – either in the source code editor or using "Move above"/"Move below" in VE – to re-sort them alphabetically for the target language, which can be very tedious and time-consuming.
Who would benefit: Anyone who uses the Visual Editor to work with tables.
Proposed solution: You should be able to select a row or column in VE and, instead of moving it one row/column at a time, just drag and drop it wherever you want.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: T125145
Proposer: Srđan (talk) 00:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Full disclosure: I talked to Srđan about this (otherwise I wouldn't be aware of the proposal), but I ran into the issue independently a few hours before. Being able to freely reorder columns in VE would be a major plus (wouldn't have to be drag and drop in my opinion, even being able to type in which row you would like to move something to would be a big improvement). Best, Blablubbs (talk) 00:52, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A good and meaningful idea. +1 --Aca (talk) 01:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

+1 Having worked and suffered with big tables related to the COVID-19 pandemic, I support this as part of a general need to improve tables and data handling in Wikipedia, especially considering how absurdly difficult it is to do this kind of stuff in the source editor. Sophivorus (talk) 01:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

+1 Good idea, Maybe also make that we can add colors to the tables? --RG067 (talk) 09:38, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think this sounds like phab:T240114 as well. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adding drag-&-drop functionality like this would make VE far more attractive to experienced editors who have objected to VE. -- Llywrch (talk) 05:56, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support I support for the convenience that feature may provide. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wretchskull (talk) 19:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk / contribs) 19:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support GiovanniPen (talk) 19:53, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:20, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support This will be a significant beenfit Thryduulf (talk: meta · en.wp · wikidata) 20:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ToBeFree (talk) 20:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Silver hr (talk) 21:08, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kisnaak (talk) 21:20, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pmau (talk) 21:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stryn (talk) 21:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Jules ^Talk 22:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Eric0892 (talk) 01:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support PianistHere (talk) 01:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Keepcalmandchill (talk) 02:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ティルケント (talk) 02:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support TSK201911 (talk) 04:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ita140188 (talk) 04:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Samwalton9 (talk) 09:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 10:08, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lion-hearted85 (talk) 10:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good idea. I use VE mainly for editing tables. JAn Dudík (talk) 10:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 11:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support 1Mmarek (talk) 11:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mannivu · ✉ 15:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support In general, table editing needs to be enhanced. ForzaGreen (talk) 16:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lirazelf (talk) 16:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zoizit (talk) 17:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — putnik 19:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 22:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - yona B. (D) 07:38, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szczot3k (talk) 08:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Euro know (talk) 11:10, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mhare (talk) 17:36, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 19:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support NaBUru38 (talk) 20:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 22:13, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Steven Sun (talk) 02:17, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adamoszkovics (talk) 10:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paucabot (talk) 12:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support BoldLuis (talk) 14:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support AndyAndyAndyAlbert (talk) 16:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daylen (talk) 20:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Meiræ 21:47, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tables in VE needs major work, this one is of them Vince789 (talk) 22:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Michael Z. 2020-12-11 23:46 z 23:46, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lalviarez (talk) 22:39, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 22:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vincent Simar (talk) 22:51, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support For convenience of the translators across wiki Dr. Dinesh Karia^{(Talk) (contribs)} 07:00, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xavi Dengra (MESSAGES) 17:13, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- the wub "?!" 18:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 19:22, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kaviraf (talk) 20:13, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ferinancat (talk) 10:12, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely save time and easy to action. Ravikrishnam (talk) 10:19, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hell yes! This is pretty much the only thing I would ever use VE for. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 06:47, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Benjamin (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 15:42, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Utopes (talk) 20:16, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mariano2397 (talk) 20:51, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support GiFontenelle (talk) 21:35, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Teratix ₵ 06:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jurbop (talk) 17:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 12:28, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support VKG1985 (talk) 17:49, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mattpeck (talk) 20:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Neptune, the Mystic (talk) 20:56, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Joejose1 (talk) 16:36, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support If would be nice if you could filter rows, too: say move all rows containing "en" to the top, or all rows containing "fr", or "American" etc.. Actually, that would also be nice when reading articles, when you are only interested in, say, the rows that apply to Wyoming. HLHJ (talk) 22:44, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cgl02 (talk) 12:03, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support HaapsaluYT (talk) 14:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:56, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support aegis maelstrom δ 17:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]