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Hello!
I just noticed, that I can add new pages with VisualEditor and edit em, also i can edit already existing pages, but if there are no templates. If these pages have templates then there is an error "Parsoidserver-http-badstatus: 500". Templates workin if the next syntax is used: {{subst:Name}}. Any ideas?Piroru90 (talk)10:58, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello; I'm a fairly new user (< 1 year) and I'm motivated (and trying!) to improve some articles, but the VisualEditor citation tools are just not usable, and I really don't have the time to learn source editing. I know that you guys have a busy schedule, but I just wanted to leave this message here to let you know that it's a bottleneck, at least for me.
The main problem I am having with the tool is that shortened footnotes or similar are not supported, so I can't reference multiple pages from the same source, meaning I can't write the article. There are also problems with intuitive selection behaviour in reflist templates and all sorts of other stuff. Is there a "fix citation tools" task on the roadmap? I couldn't see one.
Anyway, I hope I'm not telling you things you already know. Thank you for making this tool; in a few years I'm sure Wikipedia will regain some new editors because of it.Thennicke (talk)12:02, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
{{sfn|Smith|2010|p=15}} <ref>Smith (2010). p. 15</ref>Hello, here are some tests I have done with tables. I have quite a few different cases to be covered here, so I'll separate them by bold text.
1. Typing a backspace on the first character of text below a table makes that table "eat" the following line.
In my test, seenhere (first table in the code's edit), I tried editing the content of the headings right below the table in sectionHeading 2aa. The result was such: one too many backspaces made the headings jump into the last cell (code-wise) of the table, stripping their heading format and appending their line's text to the cell.
A second test, seenhere, has me styling text and trying to append it to the last cell of the table. The text retains its styles.
In my third and final test on this subject, seenhere, I created a heading and applied multiple styles before moving the text into the table. The styles were retained, but the heading was stripped due to the text being appended to the end of the last cell's last line.
In conclusion, this shouldn't actually happen. Jumping from text into a table cell with backspaces can cause some rather unfortunate problems, especially if you accidentally move a large paragraph into a compact table with narrow columns. The stripping of headings is also a loss of data, since we lose all reference to the heading's previous level.
2. Moving between cells in edit mode is impossible.
While not necessarily a universal concept, it is a usability enhancement that would make things far less annoying: while editing a cell's content, I have not found a way to move to an adjacent cell without having to use the mouse to select a different cell.
Many systems accept the use of the Tab and Shift + Tab buttons to move between cells in a row (wrapping to the next/previous row if at the extremity) without using a mouse. Others additionally or alternatively accept the use of the arrow keys when at the cell's editing border in order to jump to the next cell (Up needs to be on the first line, Down on the last line, Left on the first character of the first/current line, Right on the last character of the last/current line)
3. Entering a cell's editing mode should put the text cursor where the user has clicked
This is another usability quirk: it takes a double-click (for edit mode) and a separate single click in order to reach the user's required editing target. This is can be an annoyance for people who edit tall cells that exceed their screen's size, since the cursor's position isn't immediately apparent.
4. Alternating between bullet and numbered lists with indentation is buggy
Do the following steps:
VisualEditor removes the number, removes the bullet and all indentation. If done within a list of mixed bullets and numbers, it effectively breaks the list by dragging the following list item to the first level.
Proper functionality should be that the entire indentation level changes to bullets. All other indentation levels should not be affected. If the list is of the following kind:
Changing the numbered list at 2-1 should affect 2-1 through 2-2, butnot 2-3.
My test was done with thefollowing list, which was subsequently modifiedhere.184.151.114.14415:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
The new MediaWiki theme looks good, though the popupToolGroup (a toolbar element, ref.demo) should have a hover (and probably active) state when someone mouses over or clicks the element. Apex has both a hover state and an active state, and the current editor has both as well. Adding such a state would make the editor toolbar seem more responsive.
However, this is inconsistent with the hover behavior of the other buttons, so it's a valid question whether it's a good idea or not to add a preferential hover state to the popup tool group. However, I think it should have an active state, since other toolbar buttons themselves have an active state when activated, so adding one to the popup tool group when the popup is active would be in line with the behavior of other items.Mark Bao (talk)21:45, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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Is it my imagination or has the font of the save dialogue recently become ridiculously and unreadably small?09:03, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
I suggest another part of "insert" for "insert asbox" and "insert ambox".Qwertyxp2000 (talk)04:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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I have tried in both the English and Chinese Wikipedias, and I found that whenever I add a Chinese full stop "。" (without the quotations) after an inline citation, the "。" will disappear after the edit is saved. If you need an example, you can tell me, but basically, try putting "。" after <ref>(cite source)</ref> and see what happens.HYH.124 (talk)03:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Why is that?On your page , it says that it plans to support IE9 +, but even editing on IE11 brings up a warning that it is not 'officially supported'.Even though it is better than before (where IE users were blocked fully) , I'd like to know why is IE not getting full support for the latest versions. Is there something missing?Leaderboard (talk)16:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
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If i just type Chinese into table, it can't be saved, if i start with an English alphabet, the problem is solved.Cwlin0416 (talk)16:16, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
In Indonesian, the table commands which shown if we click the blue bar on the top or on the left of the table (like insert before, or insert on top), not completely displayed. It adds an ellipsis "..." at the end, but before the full text is shown. For example "Sisipkan sebe..."User:William Surya Permana05:06, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I saw its possible to add standard templatedata through templates, but when I tried to add a template to the templatedata description, the templatewasn't substituted. We have very many very similar templates, and their documentation mostly comes through templates, so it would be super handy to be able to add TD through templates, too. Just, as the template-page is more informative then the template interface in the VE, it would be nice to have the option of adding more customized info to the TD description without having to edit all the templates manually.
Also, why is templatedata inside the template text, why didn't you add it to a separate DB field? Seem more intuitive? Now its mixing json with Wikitext...
And: Would it be possible to display some TD description in the template selection in the VE? You really have to be familiar with the template name to add it, and I guess it would be not too complicated to show the template description, either abridged, or in the hover-text? Thanks!
