Topic on 2017 wikitext editor/Feedback

I did some editing with the new editor, and wanted to list my pros, cons, and feature requests:

Pros

• Feels fairly quick
• It's nice that I can easily switch back and forth between previews and drafts pretty quick
• I like having auto syntax highlighting
• I like the template tool as well

Cons

• The auto-syntax highlighting is a little too light, would be nice if it was a bit darker
• Have to agree with others that the UI needs to offer more hints about how to get to the previews - it was very confusing for a while
• In the old text editor, adding an edit summary and then hitting "Preview" retained the edit summary for when you were ready to publish. The new text editor does not retain the edit summary, but it would be nice if it did
• I am an avid user of the ProveIt gadget, but it's not available for the new editor. It would be great if I could use ProveIt with the new editor. I'd like to advocate here for this grant to integrate ProveIt into the new editor to be funded

Feature Requests/Questions

• For the template tool - it would be nice if I could insert multiple templates at once, and if the tool let you fill out parameters like the one for the legacy wikitext editor allows you to do
• WikEd allows you to follow links with a ctrl-click, which is very useful, is the team is planning to implement this, or is there any plan to integrate WikEd with the new editor?

Thanks -Furicorn (talk) 22:40, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback.

The new text editor does not retain the edit summary

Can you explain what you mean by this? If you open the edit summary dialog, then close and re-open it your edit summary should still be there...

I went back to see if I could reproduce the behavior. Looks like it's retaining the edit summary now when I switch back from preview and resume editing, so it must've been something weird, or just user error.

I'm not sure if I agree this is closed. Are there Phabricator (or whatever tracks progress for this editor) tickets for any of the following:

1. Changing level of auto syntax highlighting
2. UI changes to make it clearer how to reach previews
3. Being able to insert multiple templates at once using the template tool
4. WikEd integration (or at least "ctrl-click" functionality to follow wikilinks while editing)

If not, I would appreciate an explanation as to why.

1. Already done: See m:Community Tech/Wikitext editor syntax highlighting#Color and style customization
2. phab:T153306
3. Already done: Insert the first template and then click "Show options" to reach the complex transclusion tool.
4. phab:T221029