Upgraded a 1.39.4 to 1.40.0

When editing with the VisualEditor, category tags like[[Category:System]] are converted and saved as[[index.php?title=Kategori:System]]. This of course breaks the page categorising. It's possible to re-edit the page, re-categorise it and it works but it will break again on the next edit.

The WikiText editor does not exhibit this behaviour. It correctly handles the category tags.

Restored the 1.39.4 from backup and tried re-installing a few times, but the upgrade to 1.40.0 produces this unwanted behaviour all times.

Here's rest of the software versions.

Browser used is Chrome Version 116.0.5845.110 (Officiell version) (arm64) on MacOS.

i got the same problem

Freshly installed yesterday and can confirm this very annoying behaviour

Experiencing the same issue. Any solution?

MediaWiki 1.40.1, VisualEditor 0.1.2, issue witnessed. We plan to update MW to latest soon to find out if that fixes it. I can't tell the VE version that appears in ME vs the VE version that is posted on these pages.

+1 on this issue. Very annoying.

Yup. can confirm and is very frustrating

Is the issue present in 1.41?

Yes, Issue still present in version 1.41.0. This is indeed very annoying.

MediaWiki 1.41.0, VisualEditor 0.1.2

Fresh installation, issue witnessed.

Try that workaround:

localsettings.php

$wgUsePathInfo= true;

This workaround works to fix the issue, however it creates a new one. If you have a wiki on for example swedish the URL to the "settings"-page is called "inställningar". The URL will contain non UTF-8 characters and not work with this setting. So we are trapped between annoying and annoying here.

Edit. Version 1.42.3 VE shows as -

Hi all, if you add an URL of the New Yoirk Times, Times of Israel or Washington Post, the Visual Editor does not upload any pparameter suc as title, date if publication, author, website or acccess-date.

Unfortunately paywalls are increasingly causing such problems. There is not much that can be done against this I’ve been told.

I have a mediawiki in current version 1.42.3 and try to use VisualEditor.

Some pages work, but on the most of the pages the visual editor gives out an error message. All other Wiki Features works fine, i cannot find any other problem then the visual editor.

I get the following error in the Popup:

[0d4e083bdcb1c5b07630e264] Exception caught: DOMElement::setAttribute(): Argument #2 ($value) must be of type string, true given

If i check the full backtrace i are lost in the media-wiki sorce code space :-)

Do you have any hint for me how i can get the error?

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