Last modified: 2014-09-12 23:20:49 UTC
As the anon user asks in https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow&workflow=050f371f63d1034818d4782bcb077299 , "Will there be a way to view the source of someone's comment, for things like viewing code examples where the commenter hasn't put it in <code> tags? I don't expect just anyone to be able to edit others comments, but being able to see their code would be useful." In wiki pages, action=edit always shows the source of the page, and if you don't have rights to change it then it switches to a read-only "View source for <e.g. Main Page> ... You can view and copy the source of this page:". When the wiki think you can't edit a page, its [Edit] tab changes to [View source]. But the equivalent action=edit-post for a Flow post simply fails with "Insufficient permission to access the content." So perhaps Edit in a post's action menu could similarly switch to View source if you don't have rights to edit (geeky "View source" icon TBD). (In a former life I requested action=view_source for wiki pages in bug 19681, Brion Vibber shot it down 8-) .)
Notes from the old Mingle card #638: * Narrative As a user, I want to have the ability to look at the wikitext of other users' posts, so that I can learn by example, and so that I can copy content into the article. * Notes Suggest putting a "view wikitext" link in the action menu. Initially mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow#Future_feature_planning and here http://ee-flow.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow_workshop&workflow=050a6ebc737bf00fc8b1fa163e68c4ac#flow-post-050b5ac6318ff00fc8b1fa163e68c4ac and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow/Design_FAQ#Everything
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/flow/cards/735, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Just a note. Tracked in trello at https://trello.com/c/13bNHwN0/70-add-a-view-wikitext-link Mentioned today at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Flow/Developer_test_page&topic_postId=rvz16k2q0jutharo&workflow=ruk9n3213mgoxkk8#flow-post-rvz16k2q0jutharo
Change 160160 had a related patch set uploaded by EBernhardson: Add "View Source" link to post actions menu https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160160
