Talk:VisualEditor/2023

Previous discussion was archived at Talk:VisualEditor/Archive 1 on 1 September 2015.

Wikia credits missing from history?

According to the Verge article it seems that there was a partnership in development of VE that should be referenced no? Anyone informed on how it went and how exceptional this was or not from regular WMF practices? Zblace (talk) 11:31, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

The credits file for VisualEditor (as auto-published under Special:Version) lists the engineers from Wikia (Christian and Inez) alongside those from Wikimedia (and those from other organisations). Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 14:20, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

VisualEditor in Namespace Project

Hi,

I would love to be able to use the VisualEditor in projects and projects talks pages, please consider make it possible. Thank you for your attention, Una tantum (talk) 17:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

This requires a config change. As long as there is community consensus (e.g., a discussion on that wiki) and no technical problems (e.g., the namespace does not contain huge pages like w:en:WP:ANI), then the team is happy to honor such requests. The instructions are in m:Requesting wiki configuration changes. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Still in beta?

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I remembered here about this interface message: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Visualeditor-preference-betatempdisable/en

I think it needs to be reformulated. Iniquity (talk) 12:29, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Fixed by @Matma Rex. Thanks :) Iniquity (talk) 18:29, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Magic word __SOMMAIRE__

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T336101

Hi, many users are reporting that a mass adding of the magic word __SOMMAIRE__ ( like __TOC__) is happening on the French Wikipedia (1, 2), when editing with VisualEditor. Do you know anything about this? Patafisik (WMF) (talk) 15:50, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

User:SSastry (WMF), is this phab:T336101? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:39, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it is. SSastry (WMF) (talk) 04:47, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

bug of Find and replace

Hi, FYI someone finds a bug, see this discussion on frwiki for more detail. Una tantum (talk) 09:57, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Gallery mode packed not working

VE-0.1.2 on MW-1.39.4 does allow the selection of "packed" for a gallery but does not include it in the resulting Wiki-code. Thus galleries always appear in mode "traditional". Am I the only one experiencing this issue? If not, could somebody point me to the right place for filing a bug report? I have never done it before. Thanks! Sm8ps (talk) 12:58, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

You might try the Project:Support desk. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

On MW1.40 setting $wgReadOnly breaks VisualEditor

So I was upgrading MW from 1.39 to 1.40 and following the guide here and here, I set $wgReadOnly in the LocalSettings.php, all things good, after completing the upgrade I started checking some of the pages for content and forgot to delete $wgReadOnly from config.

When trying to edit a page with VisualEditor, I was getting this error: Unable to fetch Parsoid HTML

I was sure this was an upgrade issue but it turns out that deleting the property is the fix.

Installed software

Product	Version
MediaWiki	1.40.1
PHP	8.1.14 (fpm-fcgi)
ICU	67.1
MariaDB	10.6.11-MariaDB-1:10.6.11+maria~ubu2204
Lua	5.1.5
Pygments	2.11.2

• In MW 1.39, VisualEditor still works when $wgReadOnly is set.

Cheers SyncmasterN (talk) 19:18, 1 November 2023 (UTC)