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Edit tab for VisualEditor disappeared

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Slaia (talkcontribs)

The edit tab on the top of the page has disappeared a few days ago. How to restore it there? I checked the Editing, Gadgets and Beta features tabs in the Settings, but thre's no reference to VisualEditor. According to guide it should be under Beta features tab, however in my case it's not there.

A few days ago I did reset on my account settings (restore all default settings). I'm using the default Vector skin and the language is en-GB/id.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the note. Is there a "More" menu, which has an arrow that points down, sort of like a v ?

Which wiki are you editing at?

Slaia (talkcontribs)

Under "More" tab there are only Delete, Move and Purge. Previously VisualEditor was behind the tab Edit next to Edit source tab. Now there's only Edit tab and that brings to source editing mode.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)
Slaia (talkcontribs)

I noticed different things: 1) On my global preferences I can see additional line Editing mode with dropdown menu, which is not there in my local preferences. The editor section ends at "Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta"; 2) Even if in the global preference I set the Editing mode to "Always gives me the visual editor if possible" or "Show me both editor tabs", there will be only Edit tab shown that opens the source editor all all wikis.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Which wiki are you asking about?

Slaia (talkcontribs)

I'm mainly working on test wiki (mainly https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/nia/Olayama and https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nia/Olayama), but also Indonesian Wikipedia. Even if I open a page in English Wikipedia, I'd only get the Edit tab, that leads to source editor.

I looked at the page source for example of those wiki above and found the following in the /w/load.php part: ""monobook-responsive":0,"visualeditor-enable":0,"visualeditor-hidebetawelcome":"1","

What ever settings I set, that "visualeditor-enable" parameter is always 0.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)
Slaia (talkcontribs)

No. Only Read, Edit, View History tabs

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

That's really strange. Do you have Javascript (fully) enabled?

Slaia (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your patience with me. Got rid of the issue, but I don't know how. After the x-th (more then 10 times) resets of all settings in account preferences everywhere (global, and in each wiki I'm active in) the VisualEditor tab is now there. BTW I didn't touch the JavaScript thing, I don't even know where to enable or disable it.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

What a strange (and frustrating!) thing to have happen. I'm glad that it's working. If it breaks again, please come tell me.

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