Help:VisualEditor/FAQ

Questions! That are frequently asked!

General
VisualEditor is a software development initiative by the Wikimedia Foundation that will allow people to edit pages in MediaWiki without needing to learn wikitext syntax. With VisualEditor, formatting pages will work very similarly to a word processor, in that the text will look while editing as it will after it is saved.
 * What's VisualEditor?


 * When will VisualEditor be enabled on my wiki?
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 * Currently, the plan is to deploy to Wikipedias first. The sister projects, due to the complexity of some of the changes necessary, are out of scope for the initial deployment. They will, no doubt, be a focus fairly quickly after the initial deployment though.


 * I found an issue with the VisualEditor. How can I tell you to fix it?


 * How do I disable the VisualEditor?


 * A feature is missing in VisualEditor. How do I ask you to add it?


 * Will it still be possible to edit using wikitext after VisualEditor becomes the primary editing interface?
 * While the VisualEditor will become the default editing environment, a method for editing the underlying “source” text will continue to exist. There are no plans to remove the “edit source” option.


 * Aren’t you worried by the potential for a large increase in vandalism?
 * One of the goals of the randomly-selected testing done in June is to find that out. Realistically speaking, we think that those who come with the intent to vandalize are probably doing it now. It’s just as fast (if not faster) to hit the edit button and blank a page than to do the same thing using VisualEditor.


 * Does VisualEditor work with Wikisource's ProofreadPage, or Wiktionary's templates, and other features that Wikipedia doesn't have?


 * Can I install VisualEditor on my personal wiki outside Wikimedia?


 * My question isn't here. Where do I ask?

Editing

 * What about editing LaTeX for mathematical formulas, image files, and other special environments?
 * Some like images and categories will be supported directly in VisualEditor. There are plans to support mathematical formulas as well. For more exotic features, it will still be possible to edit the source wikitext directly.


 * How do I edit links?
 * Click the “link” button (looks like a couple of links in a chain). You use that to search for the page that you want to link, rather than typing double square brackets at each end.


 * How do I edit templates?


 * How do I edit images and other media files?


 * How do I edit categories?


 * How do I edit references?