Topic on VisualEditor/Feedback

Hi all

I've been working on an easy way for contributors to Wiki Loves competitions to create photo essays, the prototype is here. Unfortunatley I have a technical issue, I'm finding that some namespaces on Commons don't allow Visual Editor (which the process relies on), I'm also finding that for some reason in my userspace for some reason signatures are dissabled in VE. Is there a page somewhere on Commons that documents where VE can be used and why it is a dissabled in some spaces, also bonus points for explaining why I can't add a signature to pages using VE (greyed out).

Extra bonus points for telling me if a new user with a fresh account will be able to use VE if a page they open has a stipulation to open in VE editing window, or if it has to be enabled by the user first.

Thanks very much for your help

I don't have a handy list of namespaces on Commons; @Deskana (WMF) might be able to get one for you. Generally, it is disabled in namespaces where it is likely to cause difficulties with editing, namely any namespace that contains large (think WP:ANI-size) discussion pages and technical pages (e.g., the Template: namespace).

Signatures are usually enabled only for talk pages (so that new contributors don't think that they're supposed to sign their contributions to a Wikipedia article). It might (or might not) be relatively easy to change that for userspace at Commons.

The visual editor is default-off at Commons for everyone. They will have to opt in at :c:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures, or remember to switch (pop-up dialog upon first page edit, or the little pencil icon in the far corner of the toolbar).

I'm guessing this thread is related to T195588, which was filed a day after this thread was made. I think that task effectively resolves the questions here. If one wishes to be specific, there will be a list of namespaces that the visual editor is enabled in on Commons in the site configuration, but I don't have the time right this minute to go digging through the configuration code to find it out. Please ping me in a few days if it's still needed, and I can probably find it.