Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/Editable gallery captions in Visual Editor

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Editable gallery captions in Visual Editor

Problem: Galleries contribute significant information to articles and are a great way to illustrate the breadth of a topic. However, their captions are significantly more difficult to edit in the Visual Editor than those of individual images. Individual images' captions can be clicked and edited while still viewing the article. In contrast, gallery captions require the editor to double-click to pop up the gallery, navigate to the specific image, and add the caption, then Apply Changes and exit. This requires significantly more steps. The current process does not streamline the process and may alienate newer editors.
Proposed solution: Allow gallery captions to be editable while editors are viewing the full page.
Who would benefit: Editors who wish to display multiple images, particularly those creating articles about cultural festivals, painters, and the arts. This would save time incrementally and expedite the creation of galleries.
More comments: Thank you very much for your consideration.
Phabricator tickets: T190224
Proposer: Evedawn99 (talk) 14:32, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Voting

Support. Big task, but this would be very valuable. The more common use-case may be editing multimages in VisualEditor. Femke (talk) 19:12, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 21:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Magnoliasouth (talk) 22:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Skimel (talk) 00:43, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 00:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Prof Ranga Sai (talk) 03:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 09:07, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lion-hearted85 (talk) 12:09, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support MoreInput (talk) 12:54, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This should be possible to attract newer editors. Thingofme (talk) 16:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support daSupremo 23:09, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ahkei (talk) 01:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 04:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLFan (talk) 07:16, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 07:51, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Why this doesn't work like table captions is a bit beyond me. Izno (talk) 07:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'd think this is (in 2023) expected behavior, even if the click only opens up the existing modal window focused on the clicked image pon_{o_r} (talk) 10:54, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pmorgan1998 (talk) 00:55, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SpacedShark (talk) 05:41, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meganinja202 (talk) 14:44, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support KingArti (talk) 22:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 10:32, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 12:17, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruthven (msg) 15:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matma Rex (talk) 22:02, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 01:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 07:24, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alien333 (talk) 17:51, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sikander (talk) 22:52, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thastp (talk) 10:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:26, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 02:05, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hans5958 (talk) 03:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nashona (talk) 14:58, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Some1 (talk) 01:59, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Logret de Carlin (talk) 20:21, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 01:51, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SoupePrimordiale (talk) 07:26, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Izno. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:50, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]