2017 wikitext editor/Feedback/2024
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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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有时光标会出现错位
[edit]- 用户代理： Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0
光标和实际编辑文字的位置有时并不统一 Normal-pcer (talk) 00:36, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Wikitext editor does not honor language variants
[edit]The current wikitext editor declares unnecessary lang HTML attribute on its internal source editor. For example, on MediaWiki, it’s en regardless of your language setting; on Mandarin Wikipedia, it’s zh regardless of your variant setting.
This seemingly harmless phrase actually breaks the Mandarin Wikipedia – CJK fonts require proper lang attribute to determine which set of characters and punctuation rules to render, which is why Mandarin Wikipedia has a very delicate system on distinguishing and converting, say, zh-Hans-MY and zh-Hant-TW.
The current behavior overrides the root <html lang> setting and makes the editor a pain to read. It should either copy the attribute from root <html> element or just remove this redundancy altogether. RSChiang (talk) 19:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- I’ve reported this issue on Phabricator (T366413). RSChiang (talk) 05:19, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Summaries
[edit]Does this editor allow users to enter summaries at all? There are a couple of prolific users on Commons all of whose edits have no summary besides a tag saying that they were made with this editor. If it is a limitation of the editor, I don't like that but I guess we have to live with it. If it is not, then I would like to know that so I can contact the users in question and ask them to use edit summaries.
Please ping me when responding, I don't maintain a watchlist on this wiki. - Jmabel (talk) 21:07, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Jmabel: Yes, of course it does. Please read the manual, or just try it for yourself. :-) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 12:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- OK. One of those editors was assuring me it couldn't be done. Since he uses it for all his editing, I thought he might actually be saying something true, but I'm actually glad to know he is not. - Jmabel (talk) 16:52, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- They may have a gadget or script, or a browser plug-in, that breaks the editor in some way, perhaps without them knowing. If there's a bug at our end we'd definitely want to know! Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 17:44, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Glitching reproducibly for me.
[edit]Currently, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk%3ACitation_Style_1§ion=9&veaction=editsource is glitching for me. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Citation_Style_1&diff=prev&oldid=1248023743. (edit summary: Weird editor glitches introduced the wikitext edit I'm trying to fix with this edit. But as I'm making the fix, the editor is glitching again... The edit I made should have replace "I'mUser" with "[[User" but it looks like it won't. Very strange.) Somehow the editor acts as if the cursor isn't where I put it and see it, once I start typing. Something about the text in that section, perhaps. Reproducible by others? RememberOrwell (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Reproducible in my sandbox - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ARememberOrwell%2Fsandbox§ion=1&veaction=editsource. RememberOrwell (talk) 07:21, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, this same issue was noted 9 months ago. Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus (talk) 16:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- In Chinese? RememberOrwell (talk) 06:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)