Need more attention? Report directly in Phabricator. The Wikimedia Foundation does not provide support for installing VisualEditor on third-party wikis.
can I turn VisualEditor on via my global.js so that it's automatically on in every Wikipedia I switch to? instead of going to the settings every time to turn it on (every time I open a new Wikipedia/Wiktionary, which I frequently do). is there such a script? Niepodkoloryzowany (talk) 21:10, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
There's something even better! Visit Special:GlobalPreferences on any wiki, then click on the "editing" tab. There you will be able to set any of the visual editor–related settings (e.g. "always give me visual editor if possible") so that they apply to every single wiki at once. Neil Shah-Quinn (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
oh my gods 😲 thank you!! 💐 Shabe (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
When is the Time?
When does the Wikifandom believe the time should be when we finally enable use of the VisualEditor on Wikipedia mainspace pages? The editor has been around for a long time, and almost any difficulties have been ironed out. Anotherdelta (talk) 16:26, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
Personally, I 100% agree that visual editor should be enabled and the default everywhere! (Obviously excluding places where it doesn't function properly, like Wikidata and maybe Wikisource.)
w:Special:Diff/1271622593 caused "Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page)." There was no error before saving, and VisualEditor shouldn't produce malformed wikitext. 173.206.40.108 22:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
No way to save drafts during copy editing
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0
There's no way to save the draft midway before finalising the version to be published. In other words as with Microsoft Word there should be an automatic save for the specific registered user.
I am asked to make a simple edit to this article (“This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it...”) yet when I click that I'm just dropped into the Edit page with no guidance on what needs changing. Ideally I'd be directed to the specific problematic parts.
Hey there! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. As for this question, this may be suited more for the Talk section of the article itself; You could find more info about what could be changed, or start a discussion regarding the article. There's also the firearms wikiproject as well, which is dedicated to guns.
If you press (Learn how and when to remove these messages) on the template, you could potentially find more info on how to fix the issue. Hope this helps!:)
If you have any other issues, I would recommend headed to the Wikipedia Teahouse for assistance.
PS: This feedback page is for the editor itself which is used on many wikis, not just Wikipedia.
Having option to link to wiki's help page under "?"
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Would it be possible to add a section under the "?" button where wikis could add their own help section (eg. Wikipedia could add links to guides)? May be useful for new user
The VisualEditor wikipedia article says "Similarly, VisualEditor is not compatible with articles using list-defined references." In practice, list-defined references using the template "references" are displayed correctly (although you still have to use the source editor mode to remove them) but those that use "reflist|refs=" are not displayed, and you instead get "This reference is defined in a template or other generated block, and for now can only be previewed in source mode." I opened a discussion here about whether list-defined references should be discouraged, and someone suggested to deprecate the use of "reflist|refs=" in favor of the references template, using a bot to replace all occurrences.
Before we make a large change, I would like to have the software engineering perspective of someone experienced with the VisualEditor's design: is it something that can and will eventually be solved? Or is there a good design reason why it won't? Thanks.
I made a search on Phabricator. On this ticket, someone suggested that the issue is likely with the local reflist template and is not part of the MediaWiki software (although it's from 2010 so likely not relevant anymore). I also saw a ticket related to automatically handling the adding and removal of references <references> within the VisualEditor, which hasn't been handled yet (seems like it would be a nice improvement, maybe it should be prioritized). Alenoach (talk) 14:04, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
I'm writing from the perspective of someone with more than half a century of software experience but only limited exposure to VE. I believe that it is a mistake to change wikitext to conform to VE rather than changing VE to conform to wikitext. This is not a one-time occurrence; the new subreferncing facility has already been crippled to accommodate VE issues. -- Chatul (talk) 14:45, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Tamil Language Letters become distorted while copy pasting from MS word to Visual Editor
பயனர் முகவர்: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/120.0.0.0
Tamil language Letters become distorted while copy pasting from MS word to Visual Editor. It is happening from Jan 19, 2025. I am not able to edit in visual mode directly. I had to paste it in source mode, then press "show changes" then I had to switch the mode from "source edit" to "visual edit". Then only it comes without distortion. Can it be rectified?
@சுப. இராஜசேகர் distorted as in, the display becomes distorted? Or distorted as in, it becomes entirely different content? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 14:32, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
Display become distorted as it in the screenshotசுப. இராஜசேகர் (talk) 14:41, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
@TheDJ: Display become distorted as it in the screenshot. Here I am mentioning the dotted rounds that come instead of Tamil language characters. சுப. இராஜசேகர் (talk) 14:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
Hey. The keyboard shortcut in VisualEditor for subscript ⌘ Cmd+, is the same keyboard shortcut in macOS Safari keyboard shortcut for 'Change Safari settings', see Apple Safari user guide. As a result, the Safari settings opens when pressing ⌘ Cmd+, in VisualEditor on macOS Safari, when according to VisualEditor's dropdown menu Subscript is labeled with the same key press so Subscript is expected. (Using: macOS Safari Version 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8), on macOS 15.5) Waddie96 (talk) 16:25, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
