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Bug 48610 - VisualEditor, CodeEditor, etc: User experience of editing page source directly
VisualEditor, CodeEditor, etc: User experience of editing page source directly
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: design
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Reported: 2013-05-19 03:51 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2013-05-24 12:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2013-05-19 03:51:56 UTC 
There are now at least three ways to edit a page via index.php (not including other crazy things like Wikidata). I couldn't find a bug tracking this user experience issue, so I'm filing this one.

The three ways I'm initially focused on are:

* directly editing the wikitext (which can appear as an "edit source" page tab when VisualEditor is enabled);
* VisualEditor [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor]; and
* CodeEditor [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor] (automatic for pages in the Module namespace and soon the CSS/JS pages as well; has a toggle in the edit toolbar).

In particular to switch to editing the source, I'm worried about divergent approaches in the user interface. For example, a page tab v. a toggle in the edit toolbar.
Comment 1 Derk-Jan Hartman 2013-05-19 10:39:50 UTC 
oh, and we can also add wikEd to that list :D
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2013-05-24 12:14:24 UTC 
Slightly unclear what the bug to fix is here (and hence when it can be considered fixed). Could you elaborate?
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