Talk:VisualEditor

Previous discussion was archived at Talk:VisualEditor/Archive 1 on 2015-09-01.

Hi,

when I add a Link to PDF-File in VE using "add / pics" (einfügen, Bilder und Medien)

while beeing inside ve its shown nice with icon-thumbnail and I can change the Style (with border or without...):

kasuro.com/pdflinkinve.png

but as soon as I save and leave ve, it is shown as plain text link:

kasuro.com/pdflinkinwiki.png

returning to VE its nice again...

when I search for showing PDF with Icon, i could only find the hint for using Templates...

But I dont understand, why ve shows it correctly and wiki not.

Is there any chance to set it, that wiki displays it like its displayed in ve?

thank you very much

Do you know how to insert it correctly (the appearance you want) in the old wikitext editor? If so, we could compare the wikitext for what works vs what the visual editor is doing, and figure out how to make them both do the right thing.

Getting this error when trying to use the visual editor. Can create a new page fine but cannot save them (same error).

MediaWiki	1.35.1
PHP	7.3.25 (apache2handler)
MariaDB	10.3.27-MariaDB
ICU	63.1

Any help is appreciated.

Ich habe das gleiche Problem.

This was solved by adding https: to our $wgServer in LocalSettings.php

I have this problem, too, and I have https: in my $wgServer. However, in my case, we host Wikis via an internal and an external URL. The problem shows up only over the external URL. How do I configure this in LocalSettings.php and Apache?

Could you add two apostrophes to often used special character list: ‘ (U+2018) and ’ (U+2019)? It would be nice if, when clicked, the selected text would be inside these apostrophes. These apostrophes are often used in dictionaries (in many languages) to expain the meaning of a word / phrase.

The special character list can be customized locally by any Interface administrator. At the Polish Wikipedia, you probably want to propose this idea at w:pl:Wikipedia:Kawiarenka/Kwestie techniczne.

But it should be a thing for all Wikipedias. It is used by English dictionaries too.

It is not wanted by all Wikipedias. For example, the English Wikipedia doesn't like "curly" quotation marks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_characters

Standalone demo link changed to working one

Particularly, this external link.

Hmm, yeah, let's switch to https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/extensions/VisualEditor/lib/ve/demos/ve/desktop-wikimediaui.html#!simple for now.

I want my MediaWiki to appear like this:

Instead of this:

Reason: Since the MediaWiki 1.35 update, which defaults to VisualEditor, I have observed in Special:RecentChanges that many edits are tagged with Visual Editor: Switched, meaning they opened VE and switched to source editing afterwards.

What do I need to change in LocalSettings.php for both tabs to appear?

You might be looking for Extension:VisualEditor#Quick_configuration_guide.

It is a separate page.

I think that it depends upon whether you have the VisualEditor/Single edit tab system. Some WMF wikis do, and some don't, and I have no idea what's the default for third-party MediaWiki installations.

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T267815

Steps to reproduce:

• Insert image in source editor
• Switch to VisualEditor. Image should be visible.
• Click on the image
• A tooltip appears. Click its Edit button.
• There are two tabs on the top: General and Advanced. Click on Advanced.
• Scroll down to Image size.
• There are two options: Default and Custom. Click the latter.
• Double-click the first number to highlight it
• Try entering a new number

Upon the last step, it switched back to Default again, apparently because the one-digit width pixel number is initially too low. But I intended to type in a three-digit width.

Not sure if I am the only one to experience this, but I posted it here just in case, so it can be looked into.

Hello, in mobile devices, when I change to desktop mode in a browser, at the time of editing with VisualEditor, it shows a notice that says: You are using a browser that is unofficially compatible with this editor. Could you solve this problem? Thanks.

The desktop software is not designed to work on a mobile device. It may behave strangely or crash unexpectedly. It is appropriate to warn editors about this risk.

I want desktop software to be designed for mobile devices too, especially tablets, because tablets are close to being computers.

Hello. When I made the edit on Help:Export, VisualEditor happened to remove much text that I did not actually remove while editing.

I did not realize it after saving.

Apparently, the same happened to the editor on that page prior to me, removing a similar amount of bytes from the page.

I suggest making the source editor default again to prevent such glitches that appear like vandalism.

Apparently, the same bug also happened to editors on Extension:MobileFrontend.

The edit summaries suggest good-faith edits, but much text has been removed in edits tagged as visual edit.

Use the source editor instead.

Yes, I will. Thanks.

But expectedly, people tend to use the default, which on this site is the Visual Editor that apparently is unstable and causes good-faith users to unintentionally vandalize pages.

I suggest the developers to look into it.

I assume that this is due to VisualEditor's lack of support for Extension:Translate.

Shirayuki, do you think that page needs an Edit notice or other warning about it?

I use MediaWiki 1.31 and Parsoid 0.9.0.

I restored Russian Wikipedia from dump and have an error opening some pages in VisualEditor. For example, Россия/Russia, США/USA, Япония/Japan and other countries.

It may be my mistake, but these are the same pages that "protected" on Wikipedia (of course, I didn't check all the pages on Wikipedia, just those I interested in).

So, the question is: did I do something wrong or some pages really cannot be edit in VisualEditor?

I can open w:ru:Россия in the visual editor. It's a large page (534,630 bytes, at the moment). Do you have problems with large pages?

typo fixed

should be "run without MediaWiki" instead of "run without without MediaWiki"

fixed, thanks!