2017 wikitext editor/Feedback/2023

Post your feedback about using the first iteration of the 2017 wikitext editor as a Beta Feature. While you can disable it by unchecking the New wikitext mode checkbox in your Preferences (Beta tab), the Contributors team welcomes your feedback and ideas, especially on user interface decisions and the priorities for adding new features. All comments are read, in any language, but personal replies are not guaranteed: the team will try and go through reports here at least once a week. Need more attention? Report directly in Phabricator. You can learn how to structure well your submission.

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My general issues

The new VE isn't as good as the "2010" editor as it currently stands. The load time is way longer than the normal editor. The realtime preview feature doesn't work though I guess this is something else. The commonly used characters at the bottom aren't there. A lot of integral toolbar functions such as syntax highlighting appear to be missing. A lot of features from VE appear to be missing, such as editing templates using the vetemplatewizard, so the only advantages this appears to provide are the cite tool and the new buchered toolbar. Just my thoughts, I appreciate the entire project behind this. Aaron Liu (talk) 03:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

My two main issues are missing realtime preview, and missing syntax highlighting. The instant switching between visual & wikitext is great, but I just can't use this until those two features are built in. Realtime preview is vital, especially for template editing, but also for normal article editing. Syntax highlighting is useful to be able to easily parse visible article text from citations and other templates. DFlhb (talk) 17:04, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Doesn't automatically expand when collapsed sidebar in New Vector

When I collapse the sidebar in New Vector, the edit form didn't automatically expand to fill the white space. The same thing happens on VisualEditor as well. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 18:16, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Edit notice link disappears

When I enable "New Wikitext Mode" the red link "Page notice" that allows adding edit notices disappears. I'm an admin if that makes a difference. I tested it with the old and new Vector skins. ~ 58.6.172.190 (talk) 10:51, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Add suport for other gadgets/tools

Add support for ProveIt and the german tool, autoFormatter, the same way 2010 wikitext editor has. Qwerty284651 (talk) 14:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

الاقتصاد بين عام 2017حتي عام 2023

كانت مصر في السنوات ما بين عامي 2016_2017 في اطار نقدي واصلاحات اقتصادية حتي الدخول الي عام 2018 كانت مصر جاهزة اقتصادية للخوض والتقدم . Dr Waled Al Badry (talk) 10:41, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Feedback

I tried it for about a month. There were no obvious bugs, but I had a few problems with it that caused me to stop using it:

• Previews are hard to get.

In the standard wikitext editor, there is both the "Preview" tab that opens on the right and a large, easy to find "Preview" button at the bottom. In this version, one must click "Publish changes" before one gets an option to preview.

• Edit summaries

In the standard wikitext editor, one just types in one's edit summary in the box at the bottom, and clicks "Publish changes". In this new one, one has to, once again, click the "Publish changes" button before being prompted to leave an edit summary.

Hiding previews and edit summaries is, I find, confusing and misleading. It also partially breaks , as the source mode button for the gadget is gone without a trace. Edward-Woodrow (talk) 21:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Did it break functionality ot the older wikitext editor?

Some days ago I activated this new editor in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-betafeatures . As I saw some features are missing (e.g. „Simple mode“ - hide refs etc.) or difficult to reach (preview, changes – already mentioned here), I turned back and deactived this new editor.

The old editor appeared, but if I activated the right toolbar button „Simple mode“, all in the edit area appeared in plain text without syntax highlighting, only the right toolbar was visible, and if I deactivated the toolbar button „Simple mode“, nothing happened. 2003:6:61AE:6684:99A9:BDC9:AB81:1214 (talk) 08:07, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

I found a workaround: If I clear all Website data of wikipedia.org and then activate the old editor, it reappeared and worked correctly! 2003:6:61AE:6684:99A9:BDC9:AB81:1214 (talk) 10:01, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, the title must be

Did it break functionality ot the older wikitext editor?

but I cant change it anymore ;-) 2003:6:61AE:6684:99A9:BDC9:AB81:1214 (talk) 10:55, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

And now I pasted the title and forgot to change it, it must be Did it break functionality of the older wikitext editor? 2003:6:61AE:6684:99A9:BDC9:AB81:1214 (talk) 10:57, 8 June 2023 (UTC)