Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Results/Editing

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Here are the results of the Community Wishlist Survey for the Editing category – thanks to everyone who participated this year!

See the results across all categories.

Rank	Proposal		Tickets
1	Warn when linking to disambiguation pages	134	T97063
2	Copy and paste from diffs	124	T192526
3	Live preview	119
4	Better diff handling of paragraph splits	101	T156439, T7072
5	Allowing VisualEditor to edit by section	80	T221908
6	Allow table columns and rows to be freely movable in the Visual Editor	76	T125145 Related: T240114
7	Make edits auto-recoverable if the editor's network crashes	65	Related: T75241
8	Include "This is a minor edit" box in mobile editing	47	T123694
9	Allow editing an entire page at once in the mobile app	42
10	Allow editors to write an edit summary from the edit preview	39	Related: T140451, T148297
11	Select templates by categories	39	T55590
12	Spellchecker	38
13	Allow editors to control PageImage	30	T91683, T265713
14	Unintentional false links in VE	28	T56947, T55973
15	Tool for easy user buttons	26	T136152
16	Expand "minor edits" checkbox-feature	22
17	VE makes partially linked words and adds unnecessary tags to the wikitext	21	T128060
18	Allow text and table colour to be featured on the visual editor to change	20
19	Add indentation and alignment features to visual editor	19
20	Allow past edits to be filtered by size	19
21	Make insertable markup customizable	19
22	Edit 'macros'	16
23	Convert typographic replacement characters like straight apostrophes and quotation marks	15	T40724
24	New keyboard shortcuts	15
25	Request Feedback (Richiedi feedback)	14
26	Add global LaTeX macros for math in math tags	13	Related: T137788
27	List of nested templates	13
28	Predictive edit summaries based on changes to article text	11	Related: T3307, T14411, T54859
29	Dropdown list option for edit summary	10
30	Markdown syntax to wiki link conversion gadget	10
31	Add monospaced text in Visual Editor	9
32	Make a dialog box with an editable preview of the template.	9
33	Request to amend the preview of the "NoteTag" template (请求修正“NoteTag”模板的预览)	9
34	The Visual Editor for math tags should be usable without the mouse	9
35	Enabling preview data on the 2017 wikitext editor	6	T267048
36	Unbreak selection in the wikitext editor	6
37	Writing a : in visual editor shouldnt add a blockquote but a : to the source code	6	Related: T111712
38	Allow the usage of talk page specific markup inside the visual editor	5	T39938
39	Round brackets	3