Topic on VisualEditor/Feedback

Follow-up on the existing Phabricator ticket.

Before SingleEditTab was deployed, Jdforrester assured me that it would not be depolyed with a VE default without asking the community first. Then it was deployed with VisualEditor as the initial default. English Wiki had to fight to get that bug fixed. However it was only changed on EnWiki.

I don't speak Polish, but I happened to stumble across a Polish wiki unanimous request (permalink) for the default to be changed to the wikitext editor. I expect English and Polish Wiki are not the only ones who object to the VE default. I saw at least one request that it not be deployed as VE default at ZhWiki, although I don't know if there was group discussion. (I don't speak Chinese either).

I opened Phabricator task T159032 nearly a month ago, asking for the Polish default and hopefully everywhere to be changed. While I did sort-of get a reply on the Phab task, it didn't make much sense and it didn't answer whether anything would be done. I haven't been able to get any further reply there in the last two weeks.

Can we get Polish wiki fixed, per community request? And what about the global default? Or do I need to show more communities wanting it changed first?

This is not the right venue. Please follow-up on the Phabricator task, which will be triaged, like all other tasks, following the weekly-ish process.

(BTW, a brief check on zhwiki would have shown you that VE isn't available there except as a Beta Feature. No need to panic about imagined problems. :-))