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*Copy and pasting from the article space works now

*Signatures work? Doc James (talk) 22:17, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

#Do numbers work?

#Testing Doc James (talk) 22:18, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

I must say VE has gotten a lot better since last time I tested it.

It is working faster. Does it take references <ref>{{cite journal|last=Weaver|first=AL|title=Epidemiology of gout|journal=Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine|date=July 2008|volume=75 Suppl 5|pages=S9–12|pmid=18819329|doi=10.3949/ccjm.75.Suppl_5.S9}}</ref>

Not really. This will make it harder to have discussions. We would want to be able to copy and paste text from the article page and have it display mostly correctly so that we can say "should we go with version a or version b"

You've got the wrong expectations, Flow is not for collaboration, it's just for Blah-blah.

And you missed the double-brackets in the lower-right corner, to use wikitext instead of VE.

1. As you can see
2. Numbers are not only possible,
3. I just got them auto-inserted after hitting return.

Let's try your ref [1]

There was a <nowiki> inserted again automagically without my consent.

1. ↑ Weaver, AL (July 2008). "Epidemiology of gout". Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 75 Suppl 5: S9–12. doi:10.3949/ccjm.75.Suppl_5.S9. PMID 18819329. 

The ref should work fine.[1]

1. ↑ Weaver, AL (July 2008). "Epidemiology of gout". Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 75 Suppl 5: S9–12. doi:10.3949/ccjm.75.Suppl_5.S9. PMID 18819329. 

@Doc James, As Sänger noted, the icon in the bottom-right corner (in LTR languages) will switch back-and-forth between wikitext and visual editor. We do still need to find a way to make that clearer as a lot of people are missing it, plus a lot of refinement of user-assistance features that help editors who start typing wikitext into the visual editor mode, plus tighter integration with the editor-choice preferences that are under discussion.

FWIW, as long as we're using the correct mode, it is possible to copy&paste either wikitext, or many standard aspects of raw articles (in visualeditor mode), into Flow. Try it out over at Talk:Sandbox. (Much depends on what templates are available locally, of course).