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Good features to take note

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FocalPoint (talkcontribs)

I have provided my (mostly negative) feedback in the past. It is time to provide some positive feedback, since I have seen improvements:

  • tables provide much better value than the conventional editor
  • putting in links is providing better value than the conventional editor because of the feature which shows you if there is a link or not
    • idea: Maybe there could be an option for predictive finding of similar text links (probably better to be on request, not as standard) - like searching not only from the beginning of the link, but also from the mid text

still annoying:

  • the really pushy request to leave a comment on what was done (really useful, but not always necessary)
    • Idea: It could have an option, that if no text if filled and the editor has at some time invoked the link editing menu, it could say: Link added (I would not worry about this too much though)
Rdicerb (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi there, thank you for this positive feedback! Apologies about the length of time it's taken to respond, I think somehow this was missed - now I'm wondering if you were able to give feedback on the survey that the Community Liaisons just finished up. We reached out to users who were either extremely active users of VisualEditor or those who had given us feedback in certain ways in the past (usually on the VisualEditor Feedback pages).

Re: The "really pushy request" around leaving a comment - I've found that if you don't add something the change will still be made, though I thought that in general it's considered good form to say what change you've made in wikisource text too, right? I'm not sure what feels different to you (or it's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding the annoyance you have).

Elitre (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hey FocalPoint, about the edit summary remark, you may be interested in the following related Phabricator tasks which suggest different approaches (, , ). Best,

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