[Feature Request] Adding ability to add citation directly from CitationHunt

[ElanHR]

The current CitationHunt workflow requires a number of clicks once a contributor has found a good citation to make the change on Wikipedia. This could potentially be streamlined by either accepting a URL and making the change directly or simply taking them directly to the edit page for the particular section.

Example:
Current target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Champlain#Chazy_Reef
Streamlined target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Champlain?action=edit&section=3#Chazy_Reef

[eggpi]

Oh this is interesting! I just confirmed that the link opens your editor of choice (text or visual).

If we go with this, it does mean some #1Lib1Ref training materials will need to be updated (example) but it sounds like a nice streamlining of the UX so I'm for it.

[hughlilly]

I'd be interested in trying to help implement this feature, if it's; @eggpi, would you be able to give me some idea of where to start?

I think having a tick box for this that's unchecked by default would be good. I would argue the majority of users would, initially simply want to read the paragraph needing the citation to get the context.

[eggpi]

Thanks for offering! So it looks like this boils down to changing where we redirect the user when they click the green button. The logic is here (we don't just link from the HTML because we log the click server-side).

A bit of background: in the past, some people have suggested even deeper integration between Citation Hunt and Wikipedia, like actually embedding an iframe into CH or making edits on the user's behalf.

However, we want to train users on the typical editing flow that they'd do from Wikipedia, rather than providing our own UX for it. This feature seems to provide a good balance between convenience and complexity, so I'd be OK to go ahead with it.

Making it configurable is not a bad idea, but I'm not sure it's really worth it either just yet, because:

• We currently don't have a way to do user configuration in CH; we don't set cookies or even allow the user to log in, so there's some nontrivial preparation work to get the checkbox working.
• Of course, the paragraph is already visible in the UI, and we also link to the section right above it. The green button does signify intent to edit, so I think it's reasonable to just have it start the edit UI.

/cc @Samwalton9 as we might need to coordinate some updates to training materials.

[eggpi]

... and also @Sadads.