On English Wikipedia, after enabling this beta feature, I tried editing a whole article, and section of an article, user page, and talk page. The option to switch to visual editing was greyed out and in all cases I could not click on it.
BTW, is this project dead, or is this still planning on being deployed some day?
Deployment (default-off) could have happened a couple of years ago. I don't know when it will happen. Hopefully phab:T202921 will happen first.
I can't reproduce this problem. The visual editor is disabled on talk pages, so that's expected. But you should be able to switch in articles and on your user page. Is this still a problem for you? Is it a problem on this wiki? You can use User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sandbox to test it here.
The switching to visual editing is working for me at User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sandbox but not at e.g. w:Earth. I tried turning off all the other beta features, and returning to the Vector 2010 skin, but those didn't make a difference. Perhaps it is one of the non-default gadgets I have enabled in my preferences?
If it's a gadget problem, then safemode should be able to prove that. You need to hand-edit the URL to something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth?veaction=edit&safemode=1
I'm getting some very strange behavior. I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth?veaction=edit&safemode=1 and was able to switch between. I then went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth and tried disabling non-default gadgets a few at a time to figure out which was the problem, to no effect. Then I tried disabling all the default gadgets, and even after re-enabling those, I can't get the new wikitext editor at all from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth nor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth?safemode=1 even though the beta feature is enabled in my preferences and I've shift+reloaded. And I don't see any way to get to the visual editor, either. Perhaps this is because I normally don't use the visual editor?
I can still get the beta editor and switch back and forth if I go directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth?veaction=edit&safemode=1
Have you tried blanking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beland/common.js ?
Just tried that; symptoms are the same. -- Beland (talk) 03:08, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Just a note to say that I haven't forgotten you. I'm just not sure what the problem is. If it works in safemode, then it's some sort of gadget or user script. Help:Locating broken scripts or a request for help at w:en:WP:VPT might be your best bets.
