Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Translation/Save citations when translating

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Save citations when translating

Problem: When I'm translating an article in the wikipedia translation page and I save my work and close the page before publishing, all my references get lost and the page only displays a message that says something like "the content is in another source", then when I look into the "references" section, it's all blank, so I have to errase all the citations and write them again.
Who would benefit: Translators and editors
Proposed solution: Save the references in the same format that the article is written so they don't get lost when saving before publishing. I don't know much about programming so excuse me if I don´t give a better proposal.
More comments: It's a problem that only arises if the translation is saved and the page closed before publishing. When publishing the article before saving and closing, references stay fine.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Braulio rs (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Pginer:, I think this will interest you. Braulio, there are a lot of different issues with references in the ContentTranslation tool (see tracker in [1]). It will be helpful if you can give specific examples to identify when is still causing trouble.--FAR (talk) 11:16, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Also could be added the citation in the original language and a translation to the destination language, if desired. --BoldLuis (talk) 18:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Owleksandra (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 21:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 22:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support PianistHere (talk) 01:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kambai Akau (talk) 03:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_{（留言．百科用戶頁）} 04:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support OrCer (talk) 11:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support We need that Güntuğ Akgün (talk) 14:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes. The content translation tool is a mess. Ján Kepler (talk) 14:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 15:36, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lirazelf (talk) 17:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 22:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support dwf² (talk) 23:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nonahg (talk) 08:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 20:36, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arielllaura (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arianff (talk) 06:36, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cbyd (talk) 16:44, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Susanna Giaccai (talk) 17:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anaxial (talk) 18:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Mahedi Hasan (talk) 10:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pratodellaspiaggia (talk) 11:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yo Yan 12:22, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lalviarez (talk) 22:51, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good proposal for translators who want to save references before publishing them. WikiFer ^msg 21:12, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Podzemnik (talk) 21:14, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pavouk (talk) 21:19, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yeah, this is pretty boneheaded behavior. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 08:25, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dä Chronist (talk) 10:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kamiling (talk) 20:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kormachameleon (talk) 20:42, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support VasekPav (talk) 21:17, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support A.WagnerC (talk) 21:53, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stephan Hense (talk) 22:57, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support A translation of the citation template (not of the text of the reference itself which has to be preserved in its original language) to the destination language would be highly appreciated. Shinkolobwe (talk) 16:44, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support DaSupremo (talk) 01:26, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sepehrifar (talk) 08:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Heathart (talk) 19:00, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kottalam (talk) 15:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]