Last modified: 2014-02-10 11:44:58 UTC
One of the pain points we're seeing is that disabling VisualEditor is cumbersome. Even though there's now a user preference to disable the software, going to [[Special:Preferences]] is disruptive to user workflow. James and I discussed the possibility of adding a switch to the user interface to enable or disable VisualEditor. This switch might be located in the personal tools section, it might be a sidebar section, or it might be elsewhere. It should be viewable from ?action=view, ?action=edit, and ?veaction=edit. This switch might affect only VisualEditor or it might affect all "beta" features deployed to Wikimedia wikis. This switch will be available to both logged-in users and anonymous users. I believe this is a high priority bug to address.
Hi MZMcBride, a desktop framework for beta testing features is already underway[1}, although it was originally envisioned for smaller experiments we can certainly think about the idea of leveraging it for larger pieces of functionality as well. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Experiments
BetaFeatures is in place for this now.
