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Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | adding a CN template with automatically substituted date parameter |
Steps to Reproduce: | Editing article in VE
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Results: | CN template was inserted, but without auto-filled date parameter |
Expectations: | after selecting the CN-template, a new window should pop up with "Subst:Date" information pre-filled as Auto value to confirm, this window did not show up |
Page where the issue occurs | VersionTracker as test article |
Web browser | FF 39.0 |
Operating system | Windows XP |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | I checked the history of template:CN documentation, but TemplateData hasn't changed the last few weeks |
Workaround or suggested solution | a bot will come around and fill the date eventually, but "auto value" function should work during template insert |
GermanJoe ( talk) 22:53, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Same bug as previously reported, which seemed to have been fixed, but over the past few days has been back with a vengence. Invoke the VE, the toolbar appears and the whole screen is "greyed" but the progress bar never appears and the toolbar etc never becomes active. No cure apart from clicking Read to abort the load, and then having another go. Kerry ( talk) 08:57, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
James F. has started a discussion at WP:VPPR about offering VisualEditor to inexperienced editors. The "gradual deployment process" has finally finished, so new accounts will all have access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor now. There are several parts to this proposal, but IMO the most significant is that it would retroactively opt-in editors who were missed during the last couple of months of the gradual deployment process (e.g., 75% of the editors who created an account during the week when only 25% of new accounts were being opted in, the other 50% in the week when 50% were being opted in, etc.). Please share your ideas at the discussion. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:35, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
In this edit on Burketown, Queensland, I managed to generate some mangled wikitext.
I wanted to replace the naked URL citation ( http://www.savannah-aviation.com) with one generated by Citoid. I opened the citation to copy its URL. I then deleted the citation. I then did Cite > Automatic and pasted in the URL, then Generate. Citoid went to work and proposed an acceptable citation, so I inserted it and saved.
But the wikitext emitted is broken. Now while I might have done something not exactly as described above, I am at loss how anything I did within the VE could have produced such broken wikitext. How could I have ended up with unbalanced ref tags? Any thoughts? Kerry ( talk) 07:15, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=User:Dhulipalla_Narendra_Kumar?veaction=edit
Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar ( talk) 12:55, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
So I decided to test editing of Template:Use British English. It has one parameter (a date field) and no TemplateData set up for it. In the Add a template dialog, I click "Add template", and see, in very faint grey, "No unused fields". The user guide (in draft), says:
So, I type "1", and click on the offered field. "No unused fields" is still in faint grey, which is odd - I just used the only available field.
I type in a value for the field, then go to the "Field name" box, and type in "2". VE offers me the ability to set up a second parameter/field, which I take. I add a value for that parameter. No warning that I've used two many paramaters. The faint grey text is unchanges: "No unused fields".
I click "Insert"; the template is added to the page. No warning of an excess parameter. I save the edit. No warning of an excess parameter.
It wouldn't surprise me if VE hasn't figured out, without TemplateData, exactly how many parameters are in a template. But if that's the case, why is there text in the dialog box that certainly strongly implies that VE is tracking this? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:17, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Adding info and results for a couple of Olympians, Mihran Jaburyan and Aliaksandr Buikevich. |
Steps to Reproduce: | Originally I tried to edit
Mihran Jaburyan adding both text and references. Tried to save it and it wouldn't giving me a Parsoid: 500 error. I stopped, dismissed my changes and tried again. This time I got a Parsoid: 400 error. On neither occasion could I switch to the source editor and save that way. I dismissed my changes again, added the text using the source editor, saved, then added the references using VE and saved. That worked fine.
The next article I tried to edit, Martina Kohlová worked fine, although I only added text to that one, so I didn't think anything of it. I then tried to edit Aliaksandr Buikevich, again with text and references and again it didn't save, giving me an unknown error. This time, I added the info to one sentence, saved, added the references and saved again. I then added both text and references, and it worked fine, so I'm not sure if it's a real bug or just a random blip. |
Results: | What happened? |
Expectations: | What were your expectations instead? |
Page where the issue occurs | Add URL(s) or diffs |
Web browser | Chrome 45.0.2454.85 m |
Operating system | Windows 8 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | It seems to be a very intermittent problem, and I wouldn't have reported it had it not happened twice. |
Workaround or suggested solution | The only one I can see is by saving edits in smaller chunks. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 01:28, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
The standard format for displayed mathematical equations is like
:<math>x^2+y^2</math>
which displays as
with a single : indentation. I can't see a way to create this in VE at the moment. The equation editing dialog gives a normal, block and inline option for equations these create <math display="block">...</math>
etc, which centers the equation rather than giving the stand one level indentation.--
Salix alba (
talk): 20:56, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
.mwe-math-fallback-image-display,
.mwe-math-mathml-display {
margin-left: 1.6em !important;
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
in ext.math.css
with margin-left: 1.6em;
. (I trust flipping will be accounted for). Perhaps the HTML parser/Parsoid can substitute the colon for the display class. Didn't the old math code used to scan for :<math...
? -- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
20:27, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
15:42, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
One big missing feature in the VE is the lack of an indentation tool to increase or decrease the wiki-style semantic indentation of content (the equivalent of prefixing a line with more or fewer ":" characters in wikitext).
If this was to be implemented using the same UI as typical word processors, with "increase indent" and "decrease indent" buttons, this would be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever used a word processor (hence zero learning curve), would instantly and intuitively eliminate problems like the math indentation problem above, and also help greatly with the eventual use of the VE for editing talk pages, something which only really now requires a signing tool and indentation control to deal with 95% of use cases. Given how I understand the VE to work, an indentation control should be trivial to implement. Can we have this, please? -- The Anome ( talk) 15:30, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
;Word :Definition
I'm afraid this hasn't been thought through all the way. VisualEditor does not permit users to sign pages. Contrary to what seems to have been assumed when this change was made yesterday (i.e., enabling VE throughout Wikipedia "project" space), the overwhelming majority of pages in Wikipedia space require users to sign their edits. It is not going to go well if new users, who may well have adopted VE when they start editing in article space, come to Wikipedia space and start getting yelled at for not signing their edits, or not being able to figure out what they have to do in order to sign their edits. (Bear in mind, I'm writing this 48 hours or so after we've just blocked a whole pile of "new user" like sockpuppets, and there is a high level of suspicion of new users right now.) Please reconsider this. I believe it will have a negative effect on uptake of VE by more experienced editors, and will result in unplanned newbie-bashing. Wait until you've figured out how to include a 'sign your edit' button in VE. Risker ( talk) 04:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF) and Jdforrester (WMF): please can you do something about this ASAP, please, preferably by disabling this for now, going back and proposing a design solution for signing, then getting the user community happy with that before implementing and deploying? Risker is quite right about the risk of this resulting in unnecessary newbie-bashing. -- The Anome ( talk) 19:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
There is a task T53154 about adding a tool to add signatures in VE, but it is marked as WONTFIX. I disagree with this position, for a small bit of work VE would be usable in other namespaces. Yes it may not be as designed and may not be perfect for the task, but it would be possible. This becomes a lot more relevant now as it looks like Flow is being put on the back-burner. Flow being one of the reasons behind the WONTFIX.-- Salix alba ( talk): 09:01, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
* I think we should consider this in the light of [[WP:BBQ|this other discussion]] <sig>\n*: Yes I agree <sig2>
; clicking the cursor at the end of that and pressing "return" needs to add a new menu item, and un-indent to the root. If you're writing content, instead you'd want to extend a list at the current indent level – something you'd almost never want to do when using the hacky "system" of OLs, ULs and DLs we abuse for unstructured wikitext talk pages.* I think we should consider this in the light of [[WP:BBQ|this other discussion]] <sig>\n*: Yes I agree <sig2>
), you'd want to put the cursor after <sig2>
, press return and be indented by one, not outdented to the base level. Again, this would be actively not wanted for writing content.<br />
vs. a </p><p>
vs. a </li><li>
when they press return mid-edit, or exactly which kind of list indenting bastardy they wish to inflict on this line, or…. :-)URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Carus,_Oregon&veaction=edit
After editing this page in Visual Editor, I hit "Save Page", then got this error message: Something went wrong! parasoid-server-http HTTP 400
Miltritterprod ( talk) 05:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
The VE is rarely loading for me over the past several days. Starts loading, screen goes grey, but no progress bar. It's become close to unusuable. A lot of my recent source edits have been because I just could not get the VE to load. Is this a VE problem? Is this some problem to do with my browser, my computer, my star sign?
I had been about to switch over to doing training on the VE but at the moment I don't think I can if I cannot work out my problem which will impact on demonstration and whether or not it is likely to affect the people attending the training. Also with the roll-out to new users, are they being affected by it? Can you tell how many attempted-but-failed loads are occurring? 22:44, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Odd nowiki addition. Not sure, why a nowiki tag would be added here - please forward this to the devs working on nowiki behaviour, if it's a new case (may be related to the ISBN case further up, but not sure - feel free to merge). GermanJoe ( talk) 16:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE added nowiki tags around a big chunck of text, because someone typed text with 2 single quotes instead of double quote. But the nowiki tags should be around the problematic text, not extended to the nearby text in both ways up to the next single quote that is alone. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE added nowiki tags around nothing at the end of a table cell. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE damaged a working reference by putting nowiki tags around the opening ref tag. It's probably because the name attribute contains an opening quote and no closing quote. But before VE edit, the reference was displayed correctly, while the result with VE is a visually damaged article. Please fix VE/Parsoid so that articles are not damaged. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:39, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, haven't really wrote in a long time but I noticed something and thought that it should be reported. I saw above some people saying that they were having problems with saving a page after editing. From what I understood they couldn't save at all... In my end, when I clicked save, my edit did get saved but instead of taking back to the article, the pop up window to save a page was still open. My summary was not there...it looked like I had just finished my edits and clicked "save page" at the top right button. I checked on history and saw that my edit was saved.
I am editing on Google Chrome, Windows 8. TeamGale (talk) 09:30, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
In this edit, VE damaged a title, making a correct title into a mess with displayed "==" and text merged in the same line as the title. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 14:02, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
It would be real nice if I could right align within a table without going to the edit source.
Kcwhbjr ( talk) 18:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Copy/pasting whole sections with Visual Editor is still somewhat of a hassle:
System specs: Windows XP, FF 40.0.3, Vector skin, desktop version. If you have further questions or the description is unclear, please ping me. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Wanted to do this with V/E |
Steps to Reproduce: | |
Results: | got error message parsoidserver-http: HTTP 400 |
Expectations: | thought I could fix a typo |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | Firefox |
Operating system | Lynux |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution | Edit the page once with the wikitext editor to force a refresh. |
Ϣere SpielChequers 11:36, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Note - this may need a second look. The timeline is not completely clear, but the error has been reported again a few hours ago on help desk (see new info in Phab thread). GermanJoe ( talk) 02:53, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=User:Raiseyourvibration?veaction=edit
After I edited, I could not save it: "Something went wrong. parsoidserver-http: HTTP 400."
Raiseyourvibration ( talk) 16:32, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ka%C3%A7anik_Gorge&veaction=edit...I would need the origianal artical to make sense of this...there are too many missing punctuations and too many literal translations inserted to get the gist of what is going on here. I wowuld only be guessing as to the sense of the article as it presently exists.
JohnHBell (
talk) 11:03, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
When the citation's contents are (only) [3], then the contents are invisible in the Re-use dialog and in the context menu. You can see an example at Fruit snack, in the third ref (after "General Mills" in the lead). I can reproduce this in Firefox and Safari on Mac OS 10.10. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:01, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I was using the automatic citation function on Apostolos Gkountoulas. A lot of the pages I was adding were WorldRowing.com results pages. The actual pages are called things like http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2009-world-championships/mens-pair/final/ and have the detail of the event in the title, but the automatic citation gadget reads the title from the website, which is 'event' so they all show up as - Events - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
Is there any way of getting round this or is it a problem with the way the worldrowing website is written? Red Fiona ( talk) 23:47, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, User:cscott ISBN are still put between nowiki tags. When will this stop? An example with other damages done by VE:
[[reliquaire]]<nowiki/>s
<sup>1</sup>
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:37, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | add a picture to a wikipedia page because I want to |
Steps to Reproduce: | I am using the visual editor to edit a wikipedia page. To insert a picture I uploaded in the wikimedia commons, I clicked insert, then media. I then typed into the search box many possible searches for my picture, including file name, description, and words in the file name and description. I can't find my picture, thus I can't upload it. But it definitely exists in the wikimedia commons. It would be a ridiculously simple upload with the old system, I just copy the URL into the wikipedia page. As far as I know, uploaded photos can only be added with the visual editor through the insert media thing I just tried. Good lord, this should be so easy, I hope I'm just ignorant and there is an easier way I haven't found with my stupid eyes. Please help. |
Results: | already described above |
Expectations: | already described above |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | google chrome |
Operating system | microsoft 9 |
Skin | |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Bobologist ( talk) 00:30, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit the Reception section from Dismaland. If I cut a word or phrase from some other source and try and paste it in. The whole page scrolls placing the line I've just pasted either as the last line in the screen or just below the bottom of the window. This is very distracting, as I then need to rescan the page to find where I was editing. Google Chrome on a Mac Book. -- Salix alba ( talk): 16:45, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Looks like it works properly now.-- Salix alba ( talk): 06:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Moving in-text references to another spot in the article has a minor bug in Visual Editor. Take AdPushup (a terrible article, but a good example): see the cite spam in "history", refs 7, 1, 8, 3, 9, 2. Trying to drag and drop reference 3 (with the mouse) somewhere else within this list of references does not work - the dragging is OK but dropping is not possible: the mouse cursor keeps being displayed as stop sign for "action not possible". Dropping the reference is only possible outside the list in the main text, not between 2 other references. It should be possible to drop a reference between 2 complete, correctly defined, reference structures (specs: Windows XP, FF 40.0.3, vector) ==> Actually, dropping of all correctly closed tags should be possible between all correctly closed tags. GermanJoe ( talk) 14:19, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
I was trying to move the photo of the mill in Wallaville (the version that I was working on) into the History section (positioned on the left because of the infobox). I selected the mill photo (went "blue"), I dragged it up to the History section where a line appears after the heading where I "let go" and drop it. But the photo doesn't move - it stays at the bottom of the page. I did it a number of times without success, so I cheated and looked at the wikitext as I suspected the answer was there. Sure enough, it turned out the photo of the church and then followed by the photo of the mill are at the start of the article and so the repositioning of the mill photo into the history section doesn't alter its positioning relative to the church photo so it remains at the end of the article. So, the only way I could achieve the outcome using the VE was first move the church photo to the bottom of the article, then move the mill photo to the top of the history section and left-position it and then reposition the church photo, but how is the VE user to work that out? I think there needs to be some kind of visual anchoring of the photos just as templates have, so the visual anchors can be reliably dragged-and-dropped to reorder them. Kerry ( talk) 00:35, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cuexcomate&veaction=edit&vesection=6
This acticle contains a series of bare html links. Attempting to edit them the first time gives an add label button. Clicking this auto labels them with the url. On attempting to edit again there is no way to change the label.
Phatom87 ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
In my closed Mediawiki the Visual Editor ist freezing at start of the editing. I can not reproduce that behavior each time, but it happened at 1 of 10 startups. The Console of my firebug shows the following:
TypeError: origin is null ....cloneObject=function(origin){var key,r;r=createObject(origin.constructor.protot... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.31.198.71 ( talk) 12:19, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Fix the problem at startup of the VE |
Steps to Reproduce: | #Open a random page
|
Results: | The loading bar is standing still. |
Expectations: | Java - Script error with the following Errormessage in firebug: TypeError: origin is null ....cloneObject=function(origin){var key,r;r=createObject(origin.constructor.protot... |
Page where the issue occurs | my local mediawiki |
Web browser | In Firefox 40.0.3 and IE11 |
Operating system | Windows 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | The Mediawiki Version is 1.26wmf21 and Parsoid Version is 0.4.0. I'm using a Linux server. |
Workaround or suggested solution | Reaload the page and try again |
121.54.54.220 ( talk) 14:20, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
I want visual editor but I. Am a IP address and I can't get account as I prefer to edit via ip please let ip edit using visual editor please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.175.243.206 ( talk) 23:30, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
action=edit
to veaction=edit
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:19, 6 October 2015 (UTC)(crossposting from WT:VE)
Hey all,
This is just a quick note to highlight that the location for the visual editor’s preference is about to move – from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences (as is currently the case on almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta” though).
This action will not change anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users will continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab will still be after the “Edit source” one.
We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case there are, please let us know here as usual! This should be done in the next few days, and I’ll post a follow-up message then. Best, Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 21:37, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
This is now done. You can read a longer note at WT:VE if you’re interested in details. Best, Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 15:09, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Dragging and dropping an image into the start of a definition list shouldn't be so easy to do (or maybe not even possible at all). I think it will be easy to reproduce if you have a ==Section== that starts with ;an association list, and you drag an image into it. I've got a screenshot; ping me if you want me to upload it to a bug report. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
My visual editor option has disappeared and went I look in my beta tab, it's no longer listed there as an option. GLG GLG ( talk) 15:07, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
The 'save page' dialog does not appear no matter how many times I click the 'save page' button
My Chemistry romantic ( talk) 10:06, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Please, fix VE, single nowiki tags were already bad enough, but piling them up uselessly is even worse...
3 nowiki tags in a row <nowiki/><nowiki/><nowiki/>
. I don't even mention the many other edits on this article were damaging nowiki tags were added by VE. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 21:22, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to edit the article 2015 Southeast Asian haze and more than half the article is displayed under the 'References' section. The text is displayed as wikitext while the tables are shown as they would be displayed in VisualEditor. My Chemistry romantic ( talk) 03:39, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | I tried to add gallery. |
Steps to Reproduce: | I moved cursor to end od the line and clicked to add gallery.
Please mention if it's reproduceable/if you attempted to reproduce or not. --> |
Results: | The page jumped (scrolled) lower so I had to scroll back to reach that popup and add thect in it. |
Expectations: | I expected no schrolling or moving of the page. |
Page where the issue occurs | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Dominikmatus/P%C3%ADskovi%C5%A1t%C4%9B |
Web browser | Chrome |
Operating system | Win 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Dominikmatus ( talk) 13:38, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=List_of_bus_routes_in_Perth,_Western_Australia?veaction=edit
When I am in editing view, the bullet points for route 98 seems to have extra space above and below it..
102 at 1625 ( talk) 13:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
But I'm finding that sometimes when I leave an edit page open for a long time (> 15 minutes), I am sometimes logged out mid-edit and therefore have to save as an IP or lose the changes I've made. I'm not sure why it logs me out. Red Fiona ( talk) 12:48, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I am having troubles inserting Worldcat refs in Visual Editor (ex: https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results). There seem to be a bug with the import of ISBN-10 and 13 from Worldcat.
Visual Editor (citoid?) seems to import 13 characters for a ISBN-10, leading to an error after import. (for ex. Roberts-Jones, Philippe; Roberts-Jones, Françoise (2002-01-01). Pieter Bruegel. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810935317 97 Check |isbn= value (help).) When IBSN-13 is also imported (though not in ENwiki), the import leads to a 12 characters(?) import for an ISBN-13. In my example in FRwiki, you would get "(en) Philippe Roberts-Jones et Françoise Roberts-Jones, Pieter Bruegel, Harry N. Abrams,1er janvier 2002 (ISBN 0810935317 97[à vérifier : ISBN invalide] et 8081093531[à vérifier : ISBN invalide], lire en ligne)"
This should have led to ENwiki: Philippe Roberts-Jones (1 November 2002). Pieter Bruegel. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-3531-0.
When using Visual Editor on FRwiki, one would get the following code generated {{Ouvrage|langue = English|prénom1 = Philippe|nom1 = Roberts-Jones|prénom2 = Françoise|nom2 = Roberts-Jones|titre = Pieter Bruegel|éditeur = Harry N. Abrams|date = 2002-01-01|isbn = 0810935317 97|isbn2 = 8081093531|lire en ligne = https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results|consulté le = 2015-10-18}} instead of {{Ouvrage|langue = English|prénom1 = Philippe|nom1 = Roberts-Jones|prénom2 = Françoise|nom2 = Roberts-Jones|titre = Pieter Bruegel|éditeur = Harry N. Abrams|date = 2002-01-01|isbn = 0810935317 |isbn2 = 9780810935310|lire en ligne = https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results|consulté le = 2015-10-18}}.
I tried through Citoid public API for double checking and it lead to the same problem with the import( https://citoid.wikimedia.org/api?format=mediawiki&search=https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results) and I get the following (shortened version): [{"itemType":"book","notes":[],"tags":[],"libraryCatalog":"Open WorldCat","language":"English","title":"Pieter Bruegel","publisher":"Harry N. Abrams","place":"New York","date":"2002-01-01","ISBN":["0810935317 97","8081093531"],"abstractNote":"\" [...] .\"--Jacket.","url":"https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157","accessDate":"2015-10-18","author":[["Philippe","Roberts-Jones"],["Françoise","Roberts-Jones"]]}]
Thanks for taking the time to consider this Afernand74 ( talk) 18:49, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed the improved link-editing interface, making it clear (and easy to change) which part of the text will be part of the link or not.
One issue I have is that when typing a search term, a large drop-down list appears. This automatically scrolls the screen far down, to the point where the "Done" button is obscured by the editing menu. In fact, at first I could not figure out how to save the changes at all, until I noticed the "Done" button. (Windows 7, Firefox, Vector) -- Ypnypn ( talk) 20:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
When a table end |}
is missing, and VE has no clue where the table should really end, it shouldn't
add it at random, especially at a place that is obviously a mistake... --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 13:48, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Please, stop VE from
adding a useless "link" attribute to the image itself [[Fichier:Euphydryas_editha_5679.JPG|link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Euphydryas_editha_5679.JPG|thumb|''Euphydryas editha'']]
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 21:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Looks like Citoid has trouble interpreting language code information, I just noticed this behaviour in several articles with Indian sources. See for example [6]. In "Travel Challenges" the last sentence is "Recently, GoUNESCO has started organising fun runs at World Heritage Sites including Hampi,[9], Bidar,[10], Warangal,[11], and Ooty,[12]". Using any of the URLs in the 4 references (I already converted them) to create an automatic citation with Citoid, Citoid reports a language of "en-IN" (example URL #9: [7]). Now that's technically correct of course, but as an English variant such values make little sense to report on the English Wikipedia, and may better be omitted for Citoid usage. And even if they are not omitted, it would be better to "translate" those codes into their readable standard language names. This is not really a bug, but somewhere between URL -> Citoid -> citation template, the handling of language codes and language variants could use another look. (specs as always: Win XP, FF 40.0.3, vector skin) PS: According to Template:cite web the template (and all other CS1 templates probably) only accept ISO 639-1 codes or just "English" (or nothing) in this example. Disclaimer: I don't know the technical background there, you may need to contact someone more knowledgeable in the coding and logic for CS1. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:54, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
xml:lang="en" lang="en"
. The article is clearly written in English. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:30, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thirdparty_bia&veaction=edit
3rdpartybia ( talk) 18:53, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
I was adding {{ According to whom}} to an article and the blurb at the top was exactly like this:
{{GENDER:$3|You are adding}} the "$1" template to this page. It doesn't yet have a description, but there might be some information on the <a $2>template's page</a>.
So there is something not rendering as designed here. I can supply a screenshot if required. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 14:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
See User:99of9/sandbox3#Test_5 -- 99of9 ( talk) 02:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
See this edit by USer:JaJaWa that shows multiple problems with VE:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 07:43, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | |
Steps to Reproduce: | Problem is reproducible with these steps:
|
Results: | The blank edit summary reminder appears, even though an edit summary is there. |
Expectations: | The page should be saved, with no reminder. |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | Firefox 41.0.2 |
Operating system | Mac OS 10.10.5 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
— Granger ( talk · contribs) 22:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
If they is being done by VE we need to shut it down until it is fixed.
In this edit [8]
All these hard spaces have been added [9] Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 02:19, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
I like the VisualEditor a lot. Occasionally, I'd like to be able to switch to source editing to do some specific work and then switch back to visual editing. I know how to do the former, but then I've not been able to figure out how to get the VisualEditor back. -- RaymondYee ( talk) 14:48, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I added Red5 content to the page below but for some reason the text in the first column is centered throughout the edit whereas the existing content is aligned to the left. Is there a way to fix this? URL: /info/en/?search=Comparison_of_streaming_media_systems?veaction=edit
JamesMaynard ( talk) 21:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 85%; border: gray solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse; text-align: center; width: 100%;"
. The "text-align:center" part says that the contents of all table cells should be centered. The right-aligned cells have been individually and manually set to right-alignment, via the {{
rh}} template (which only adds that long string of gobbledegook again, this time for the individual cell only, but it's quicker to type). VisualEditor does not support changing the formatting of individual table cells. Therefore, this cannot be done in VisualEditor at this time.The visualeditor reference names of ":0" and the like are causing problems for User:AnomieBOT, which has a routine that fixes orphaned references. Because of the thousands and thousands of references named ":0", Anomie had to edit their bot to ignore visual editor references, meaning that orphaned references created by visualeditor will not be fixed. The refnames used by Visualeditor need to be unique to avoid this problem. Perhaps the software could maintain a counter and name them "VE1" "VE2" "VE3", and have unique names for each references even on different pages. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 06:16, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Since Friday 6 November I have seen six reports from VE users that they just keep being asked for captchas:
PrimeHunter ( talk) 06:27, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=Nic_Marks?veaction=edit
It won't let me save my changes - I'm stuck in a captcha loop
Stolenchild66 ( talk) 20:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ukulelle/sandbox&veaction=edit&vesection=4
Markdarryl ( talk) 01:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | fixing a wikilink to point to Maryborough railway station, Queensland |
Steps to Reproduce: | Clicked on "edit source" (rather than "edit" -- my mistake) on the section "Heritage listings" in Maryborough, Queensland. It opened in the source editor, I realised I had intended to use the VE, so I clicked Edit at the top of the screen and I switched into VE mode. I made my little change and then Saved. |
Results: | Deleted all the other sections of the article except the Heritage listings |
Expectations: | Editing a section doesn't delete the rest of the article! |
Page where the issue occurs | diff |
Web browser | |
Operating system | |
Skin | |
Notes: | It looks like doing section editing with the source editor and then switching into the VE (even if you have not made any changes) gives the VE only the current section to work with. Any SAVE then destroys the rest of the article. Kerry ( talk) 07:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC) |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Kerry ( talk) 07:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Add a link to Alison Cerutti from Martins Plavins. |
Steps to Reproduce: | I was updating the text on
Martins Plavins and wanted to add a link to
Alison Cerutti. I did what I normally did, which is select the text by mouse and then going up to the link button in the toolbar. Because I'd only put Cerutti's surname, he didn't come up, which was expected behaviour. I therefore type his full name in and saw that an article did indeed exist for that player (). However, when I select that link it only gives a redlink .
I did the same thing for Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil just after so it's not a repeatable issue. |
Results: | Gave a red link |
Expectations: | Links properly to Alison Cerutti. |
Page where the issue occurs | Martins Plavins |
Web browser | Chrome 46.0.2490.80 |
Operating system | Windows 10 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | Any additional information. Can you provide a screenshot, if relevant? |
Workaround or suggested solution | I opened the page in source editor, saw that it had linked properly and saved. Opened Martins Plavins in a new tab and it worked fine. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 04:04, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
When I opened the VE interface to start editing Elizabeth Palmer, there were suddenly two large flashing blue dots under the link and cite points. What in heaven's name is that about? Risker ( talk) 02:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd call them "beacons"; regardless, they are not a standard icon/feature/approach on any software or web page that I'm aware of, and appear to violate the Principle of least astonishment. If these two are really important, then a blue, circled "i" (as in "information), not changing intensity, is a much better choice.
Why is this important? Because at least some percentage of potential editors are going to think that something is wrong; many of them are not going to click on the beacons to see what they mean, but rather will just close the page to get rid of the "weird things". And as for experienced editors, these beacons are going to be another indication that the VE developers just don't understand user design - something we don't need if we want to convince experienced editors that VE has significantly matured. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Is there supposed to be a limit to then number of times, within a single editing session, that a user can switch between VE and the wikitext editor? I ask because in doing a test, I found that after a couple of switches, I could no longer get from the wikitext editor to VE by clicking on the "Edit" tab. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:49, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
I've a odd problem. If I start editing and article with the wikitext editor, then switch to the visual editor and save the page. The displayed page title will be "Editing ....". To be precise
Note it also temporarily changes the <title>...</title>
tag, of the page.
Not a great bug, but it did lead to some confusion. After editing a page I switched to another tab, then looked backed at the old tab, which was still saying Editing ..... This confused be for a bit as I thought I had finished editing the page but the page title was indicating I had not. -- Salix alba ( talk): 10:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Try adding a link to ionic compound (click the link button before you have written the words). Like here Ionic compound. In the link box, type "ionic compound" (all lowercase). It gives you two options to link to, the lowercase "ionic compound" and the capitalized "Ionic compound". Click to choose the lowercase one. In goes the link, but its always capitalized and you then have to go back into the word and edit it. It should give you the capitalization you chose. 99of9 ( talk) 12:44, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Visual Editor opt in does not appear despite being logged in.
Mieczkowski ( talk) 20:13, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
When will Citoid be able to take an ISBN and generate a citation? I ask because this functionality has been available for many years, elsewhere: OttoBib generates citations, when an ISBN is entered; the output can be set to be in Wikipedia format. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_anime_conventions&veaction=edit&vesection=1ted in 2012
Anime Fusion Bloomington, Minnesota Held in October Started in 2012
Lawbunnie007 ( talk) 21:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
To reproduce, try opening this revision of the November 2015 Paris attacks page with the VisualEditor. The page looks fine until the "Attacks" subsection, at which point raw wikitext becomes visible, starting with the text
{{quote box↵|title=Timeline of attacks↵|align=left↵|width=25%↵|quote=↵13 November
and then most of the rest of the page following that is lost. It's been some time since I've seen the VE break on a high-profile page like this. Browser: Firefox 42 on Debian Linux 8, on x86-64. Also verified with Firefox 42, and Safari, on MacOS X El Capitan. -- The Anome ( talk) 11:11, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
<ref name="reuterstimeline />
contains unpaird quotation marks. The wikitext has been corrected since then.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't envy the VE team's task, as I have some understanding of the challenges involved in maintaining backward compatible in messy, running systems without breaking them. If you take a look at how the HTML5 team resolved the similar problem with rigorously defining a parser that was backwards compatible with the ad-hoc heuristic parsing of various previous flavours of HTML in earlier browsers, you can see the scope of the problem. In particular, you can never have an invalid document in a workable wikitext system: only a document that does something that perhaps does something you didn't expect it to do, otherwise human editing of wikitext will become impossible without programmer-level debugging skills. -- The Anome ( talk) 19:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Hmm, interesting. I've asked if this is something that Check Wikipedia can pick up. Regardless of VE, it might also be bad for 3rd party tools. And it's ugly :). Phab ticket created as well. Though I wouldn't mind if this is tackled in the PHP parser, rather than in Parsoid..— TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 09:56, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Another big problem related to editing a section first in wikitext.
This removes all other sections of the article. See for example section edit to Machadodorp the edit was intended just to link a particular author but instead deleted the rest of the article leaving just the section edited.-- Salix alba ( talk): 06:37, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
It would be helpful to include a way to add an ISBN link.
Presidentman talk · contribs ( Talkback) 16:31, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I was doing quite a time consuming edit on National Cycle Route 2. I started in wikitext. Switched to VE. As it was a long edit I saved halfway through. I then started editing again in VE and the popup box asking if I wanted to keep the changes appeared? -- Salix alba ( talk): 10:21, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
VE does quite a good job in allowing me to paste in a wikipedia URL like /info/en/?search=Southampton and producing an internal link Southampton. It fails if I try something like /info/en/?search=Raymond%27s_Hill which has a escaped ' (%27), just inserting an unlinked URL.-- Salix alba ( talk): 10:30, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
I've used the cite conversion tool on an article where the same bare link cite was used more than once. Alas, it just converted that single instance, leaving the others as-is. When bare links are converted to cites, the VE should name the converted reference, check for the presence of any more instances of the same bare link in the article, and convert those to references to that named reference. -- The Anome ( talk) 12:15, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
As a related issue to the above, the autoconversion tool should always generate <ref> names for each reference it converts. Ideally, that name could contain some semantically meaningful label made from an author's name or publication name, but even a label like "a26" would be better than nothing. (Of course, whatever name generation process is used, it should contain checks to ensure uniqueness within the article.) Even if this label is not used elsewhere at the time, having it in the article wikitext will make longer-term maintenance of the article easier, even if it's only for editors editing the wikitext directly. -- The Anome ( talk) 12:22, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing that this has been reported many times before, but just in case: this VE edit resulted in a number of unnecessary nowiki tags. (Perhaps ironically, I was using VE to edit a help page about using VE; the edit "broke" the page entirely.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Can I get visual editor for ur.wikipedia.org? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shansajid ( talk • contribs) 11:58, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Please participate in the discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 10#Publisher plus.google.com.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 15:42, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
|publisher=
with a plus.google.com external link and adding an invalid |language=it-IT
.
Keith D (
talk) 02:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Okay, I've asked Keegan. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt"/>
. VE's "Automatic" option to fill out a reference from a url produces: publisher = https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt
. Html like <link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/...>
is recommended at for example
[12]. Such publisher information should probably be ignored when references are generated automatically.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt"/>
|language=it-IT
" what is being done about sorting out the invalid language parameters in these citations and avoiding adding language parameter of English.
Keith D (
talk) 19:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
mw.language.fetchLanguageName()
. It would be nice if there were a similar function that was restricted to listing only the language code registered at the
IANA language subtag registry along with a similar function for country codes and better, some way of knowing that the language code / country code pair when used together made some sort of sense: en-IN, es-MX but not pt-IS.
Names.php might be adapted but because it serves multiple purposes such adaptation might not be compatible with this use.|language=English
. When English is the only language listed,
Module:Citation/CS1 ignores it. There are those who would rather that AWB did not remove |language=English
as part of
general fixes. Certainly those at the
WP:MED translation project would prefer that |language=English
not be deleted. See
this discussion.1. I would like to delete that [1] note/template I tried to insert but doesn't work. What can I do?
2. Is there any possibility to create an additional box? (i.e. to have two templates?) I tried to create an other one with Andres' Medals but it completely changed the design (all the content went into the template when I saved the page)
Thank you for your reply Regards Stéphane
Stephanefasel ( talk) 13:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in this , VE damaged a well formed titled by putting it at the end of the previous line (keeping the ==). -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 20:14, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Following on from discussion above about VE auto filling in of references there is a problem with this always completing dates in ISO format rather than honouring the date format of the article. Thus you end up with much more inconsistency in articles and have to keep following round edits to put the dates in the right format for the article such as day first format. The added reference should have its dates in the major format of the article, ISO being used if there is a mixture that you cannot determine which format to put it in. The presence of {{ use dmy dates}} or {{ use mdy dates}} templates can show which to use. Keith D ( talk) 01:45, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to bring this up, but I can't figure out how to assign names to references using VE. If I choose to reuse an existing reference, VE will name the reference with names like :0 and :1. I can't figure out how to change this short of manually editing the reference name (which is fine for me, but VE isn't for people like me - it's for new users). Am I correct - is it actually impossible to edit reference names within VE? Guettarda/ Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:18, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
|author=
and |date=
fields in the citation templates) and to allow editors to re-name them manually. However, I'm not realistically expecting progress on either of these points during the next few months.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:31, 8 December 2015 (UTC)Many articles expose bare urls in their refs. I'd love for ve to offer a way to fix this. If a ref is formatted as <ref>http://.... I'd love for VE to put the url in one field and offer a second field where I could put the title. This is particularly important for pdfs and for the NYT that don't respond well to VE's cite builder. Thanks! Lfstevens ( talk) 07:11, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/</ref>
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa</ref>
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa]</ref>
Finally, I'd change the Convert process so that after conversion it takes you to the fields dialog without the intermediate Insert and Edit steps.
Cheers! Lfstevens ( talk) 01:59, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Currently, something like {{subst:foobar}} seems not to be substituted in a reference. Is it possible to insert {{subst:#tag:ref}} instead of <ref></ref> as a reference? I cannot think of drawbacks in this change but I want to hear from experts about the problem. ktns ( talk) 18:24, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{subst:NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}}}
, which results in the wikitext <ref>126,428</ref>
being added
at the moment. But why would you want to do this?
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:43, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
for parameters such as date
parameter of {{
dead link}}. With this feature, I think it is convinient to be able to set current date as default value for such parameters.
ktns (
talk) 15:28, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | |
Steps to Reproduce: | Upon entering VE.
Then finished my edit and reproduced by entering again. |
Results: | Refs were counted in the editor otherwise than on article display.
Ref #1 (in the infobox) remained #1.
Ref #2 (in the main text) turned into another ref #1. The following refs continued this count. as a result, the inline numbers did not mactch the ref-section numbers when viewing the editor. |
Expectations: | One continuous count of refs as in article viewing |
Page where the issue occurs | /info/en/?search=Find_My_Baby?veaction=edit |
Web browser | Firefox 41 |
Operating system | Win7 Home premium SP1 |
Skin | Monobook |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
trespassers william ( talk) 17:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Being able to control sortability would be extremely useful by adding class="sortable"
to the style to bring it in line with the Wiki Markup toolbar.
T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)
talk 12:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | edit gallery |
Steps to Reproduce: | I turned on VE editing |
Results: | gallery showed only in one column ( look here) |
Expectations: | normal look, in rows and columns |
Page where the issue occurs | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Dominikmatus/Pískoviště |
Web browser | Chrome, Firefox, Opera |
Operating system | WIN 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Dominikmatus ( talk) 22:15, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
The VisualEditor recently expanded the mathematics tool, and I'm looking for more feedback on the overall design, whether it seems to be working for you (browser/OS if it's not), and whether anything significant is missing. Click here to play in my sandbox if you want to start on a page that contains a math formula. Double-click on existing formulae to open them, or go to Insert > More > Formula to add new ones, and let me know what you think. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
More of a general comment than a bug report, but it seems like cross-wiki uploads via VE have a significantly higher rate of copyvios compared to the "old" upload methods. Especially logos and similar content seem to be problematic. In the last 2 days I noticed 4 of such cases (obviously that's nowhere near a sufficient sample size), and skimming briefly through Commons recent "cross-wiki" uploads the failure rate could be as high as 20-30 percent. A few questions: 1) is anyone still monitoring those uploads to analyze the feature's rate of wrong uploads? 2) Is anything planned to improve this feature? Frankly, two sentences of vague information and a trivial checkbox isn't exactly "high-tech security". Especially new editors are left alone with almost no meaningful advice. Of course a simple browser-based application cannot explain everything about copyright in 5 minutes - but a bit more specific advice could be useful. Also, the information text should be displayed more clearly as "warning", not merely as skippable "information" (red is a great color for instance, or a warning sign might help a bit). GermanJoe ( talk) 22:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
See history:
Please fix. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:19, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
— TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 23:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
It's not hard to reproduce the "small" problem. See this diff. The steps are this:
If you pasted it near pre-existing small text (e.g., there is already a source listed and marked as small text, and you are pasting in a second source, perhaps on multiple lines throughout the document), then you'll get <small>original</small> <small>new</small> – "original" in small text, a normal size space, and "new" in small text.
Since some people use <small> and <big> to visually adjust the size of spaces, I'm not certain that this is something that Parsoid should disallow. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:40, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
</small>
just before a <small>
without anything in between... But even the ones with a whitespace character in between should be handled properly without creating a complete mess in the wikitext. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 03:40, 18 December 2015 (UTC)URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lua_(programming_language)§ion=7&veaction=edit
75.110.221.86 ( talk) 01:11, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
VE is adding infoboxes without newlines. This make it very hard for people not using VE to manually edit the infoboxes. Examples are [15] and [16]. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{fact|date=December 2015}}
.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 18:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Add a reference |
Steps to Reproduce: | Wrote something, tried to add a reference to [17] using the auto cite. Got the 'We couldn't make a citation for you. You can create one manually using the "Manual" tab above.' message. |
Results: | Got the 'We couldn't make a citation for you. You can create one manually using the "Manual" tab above.' message. |
Expectations: | To be able to add the references using the automatic cite function. |
Page where the issue occurs | Trying to add [18] to Rachel Dawson. |
Web browser | Chrome 47.0.2526.106 |
Operating system | Windows 10 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | Slightly confused because automatic citation creator was working earlier today (see this diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Kim_Young-ran_(field_hockey)&oldid=695770328) with sports-reference.com pages. |
Workaround or suggested solution | Just added it manually. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 21:08, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Looks like a minor bug: clicking on any template once (i.e. in Hockenheim, Windows XP, FF 42.0, vector skin) displays the correct puzzle symbol, but next to it the text "Item" is displayed instead of "Template" (it should also immediately display the name of the clicked template, afaik). That preview window (or however developers call that small initial window :) ) also lacks an "Edit" button. Other preview windows for other types of insertable elements seem to be OK, although I didn't check every element type (Media, Reference, Reference list and Link were OK at least). GermanJoe ( talk) 05:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I am currently seeing any template present in the VE as "item" without the ability to edit it. Using Chromium on Ubuntu Linux 15. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 04:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This is regarding the dit i made using VisualEditor: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=ISO_3166-2%3AGB&type=revision&diff=696177228&oldid=695880839
I just added a new row using the option "Insert above", but looks like when i actually look at the Wiki code, it is not produced as expected. -- Siddhant ( talk) 12:20, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
When we click on "Review your changes", we're presented with a green highlighted button "Save page" at the top right even if we didn't write an edit summary. The "Return to save form" button should at least be put at the left of the "Save page" button", instead of being hidden at the very bottom of the page.
The RedBurn ( ϕ) 11:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
As a VE user, what I am supposed to do with a disambiguation page like Shandon? I went there to add a new entry Shandon, Rockhampton which needed an Australia heading added. When I looked at the other country headings, e.g. Republic of Ireland, they appeared as Paragraph format but without any bold formatting (as far as the VE was admitting), yet were visibly bold. That is they were different to the word "Shandon" in the first line which was Paragraph/Bold (said VE). So I created the heading Australia by using Paragraph/bold so it looked consistent with the other headings. I experimented with using Subheading1 but, although bold, the font is larger than the other headings. But Subheading2 does look about right. I think a VE user is likely to be somewhat confused by this.
But of course as a long-time source editor user, I guessed the other headings were done using ";" (which I confirmed after saving my VE edit with a quick peek in the source editor).
So, I think disambiguation pages are soon going to become enormous messes as more VE users edit them using manually bolding or some type of Subheading format. And fixing these will be seen as "creating more work for the community". (I guess the day will come when VE users are seen as part of the community and not some external agents of evil, but that day doesn't seem to have dawned).
I know someone will point out that the use of ";" in this way is evil, but can we skip that conversations in favour of recognising it's a reality. There's lots of them and they are widely used on disambiguation pages in particular, where people seem to be resistant to the visually heavyweight presentation of using ==Whatever== to create sections within lists.
Could we present ;Whatever to the VE user as a new para format "List header/Term" in the drop-down with Paragraph/etc? So that way they can see them and create them consistent with the rest of the disambiguation page (or wherever they are encountering them). I don't know if this is feasible but maybe only offer this format option if it's actually in use in the article (that is, don't offer it if the article isn't using it to discourage the proliferation of even more evil semicolons). Kerry ( talk) 20:56, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
As someone who operates in the article space which tends to start every article with
{{use Australian English}} {{use dmy dates}}
it is really annoying when Citoid produces non-dmy dates in such articles. Could Citoid be made a little smarter to detect the presence of the {{use dmy dates}} in the article and provide DMY dates please. Again, it's the kind of thing that will just create conflict between the VE users and the rest of the Australian community ("messing up articles with VE").
In the source editor, I don't have a problem if some tool inserts non-DMY dates because I have the gadget installed to allow me to convert "all dates to DMY" but that gadget does not show itself in the VE. So when I use Citoid, I have to switch into the source editor, and then click "all dates to DMY" to fix the Citoid. Or else allow the DMY-fixing gadget to work with VE.
As someone who is trying to make VE my default, I find myself constantly having to switch to the source editor to fix things I just cannot do (or cannot easily do) in VE. Kerry ( talk) 21:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
On this test template (Template:Infobox country/Sandbox 1),
I am unable to translate the template row labels, such as:
Flag
Seal
Anthem
Status
Capital
Largest Village
Official languages
Ethnice groups
Denonym
Sovereign State
Government
Legislature
Area
Population
GDP
HDI
Currency
Time zone
Calling Code
ISO 3166 Code
Interent TLD
Website
I am trying to get those row labels translated into another language for use on another Wikipedia language edition.
Could you show me how this could be done using Visual Editor? That would save me a lot of time instead of drilling down and manually editing the source code. Thanks. -- Philip J ( talk) 21:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
In the references part of the article, somebody wrote down "slob on my knob". I'm not sure that that is appropriate or related to the article. I'm not sure how to delete that part so I was wondering if you could.
Random15679 ( talk) 20:51, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
By the way my last comment was on the article Law of April 6, 1830.
Random15679 ( talk) 20:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please see the VE-related thread on this talk page: Talk:Albert_Rees (It was posted to this page per the editor's policies.) Apparently, VE extracts ASINs automatically from Amazon pages. This is normally a desirable feature, but apparently when a valid ISBN also exists on en.wikipedia only the ISBN should be reported, whereas fr.wikipedia prefers both. I refer you to the page: Talk:Albert_Rees-- Dk3298371 ( talk) 06:50, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
See this edit, where whole sections have been put into a single line by VE (including the titles of several sections). Also, look at the mess done on the categories. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:10, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
In this edit, I added the last body paragraph in Westwood House by a copy-and-paste from a paragraph from Westwood, Queensland (both were opened in the VE) which carried over two citations. I then fiddled a bit with the wording so it flowed better in the context of the Westwood House article (but this did not affect the citations in any way). I saved Westwood House and was surprised to see that the citations I had added to the article (which were the last citations in the body of the article) were numbered [1] and [2] while the remaining citations (all earlier in the article) were numbered [3], [4] etc. I opened the Westwood House article again in the VE and saw the citations numbered [1], [2], ... through the article and then at my new final paragraph [1] and [2] were repeated. (Note there was no relationship between my two citations and any other citation in the article -- no re-use etc). I went back to article mode and this time the citatons seemed to be numbered normally [1] [2] etc through the article as you would expect. But when I opened it again in the VE, the numbering was back to [3] [4] .... [1] [2]. I am not sure if my initial article view after the edit is reproducible (as now it shows the numbering correctly) but my opening of the article in VE consistently numbers the references wrongly. I am aware we have a problem with numbering citations when some of them appear in infoboxes etc and this article does have one citation in a photo caption (nothing to do with my edits), but the citation-in-a-box problem just impacts the incrementing of the citation numbers. I've never seen it start reusing the citation numbers. When I looked in the source editor, I notice that the first of my copy-and-paste citations has name=":0" and I am wondering if somehow this is the culprit? Kerry ( talk) 00:25, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
I stumbled onto this real "new user with VE" example via my watchlist. The backstory (via the Teahouse) is that this is an article about her grandfather John Richardson Wigham and the photo provided is of someone else. She has uploaded a real photo of him to Commons and is now trying to replace the photo in the infobox. She would appear to have copied the markup offered by Commons to "Use on a Wiki" (which would be perfectly correct if she was a source editor user). But watch what happens as a VE user.
Step through the story starting with [19] with this first edit where she pastes in the markup. But that doesn't work, so she removes it. Then she realises she's got to do something to the infobox, so she would appear to have managed to replace the infobox with the markup. Then she manages to somehow manglethe EngvarB template into her image markup. She realises she has deleted the infobox and tries to reconstruct it (without knowing about the infobox template). The sequence of events is then interrupted by her photo being removed from Commons for not having the right permissions. Fortunately the ensuing dialogue at the Teahouse results in someone else cleaning up the mess.
It's a good example of the use case "new user wants to put a photo in an article" and/or "new user wants to put a photo in an infobox" and how the VE just can't do it for them. This user never discovered "Insert media" and even if she did, she could not have used it on an infobox. Kerry ( talk) 22:59, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
This page is an archive. Do not edit the contents of this page. Please direct any additional comments to the current main page. |
When trying to add a thumbnail:
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | adding a CN template with automatically substituted date parameter |
Steps to Reproduce: | Editing article in VE
|
Results: | CN template was inserted, but without auto-filled date parameter |
Expectations: | after selecting the CN-template, a new window should pop up with "Subst:Date" information pre-filled as Auto value to confirm, this window did not show up |
Page where the issue occurs | VersionTracker as test article |
Web browser | FF 39.0 |
Operating system | Windows XP |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | I checked the history of template:CN documentation, but TemplateData hasn't changed the last few weeks |
Workaround or suggested solution | a bot will come around and fill the date eventually, but "auto value" function should work during template insert |
GermanJoe ( talk) 22:53, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Same bug as previously reported, which seemed to have been fixed, but over the past few days has been back with a vengence. Invoke the VE, the toolbar appears and the whole screen is "greyed" but the progress bar never appears and the toolbar etc never becomes active. No cure apart from clicking Read to abort the load, and then having another go. Kerry ( talk) 08:57, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
James F. has started a discussion at WP:VPPR about offering VisualEditor to inexperienced editors. The "gradual deployment process" has finally finished, so new accounts will all have access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor now. There are several parts to this proposal, but IMO the most significant is that it would retroactively opt-in editors who were missed during the last couple of months of the gradual deployment process (e.g., 75% of the editors who created an account during the week when only 25% of new accounts were being opted in, the other 50% in the week when 50% were being opted in, etc.). Please share your ideas at the discussion. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:35, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
In this edit on Burketown, Queensland, I managed to generate some mangled wikitext.
I wanted to replace the naked URL citation ( http://www.savannah-aviation.com) with one generated by Citoid. I opened the citation to copy its URL. I then deleted the citation. I then did Cite > Automatic and pasted in the URL, then Generate. Citoid went to work and proposed an acceptable citation, so I inserted it and saved.
But the wikitext emitted is broken. Now while I might have done something not exactly as described above, I am at loss how anything I did within the VE could have produced such broken wikitext. How could I have ended up with unbalanced ref tags? Any thoughts? Kerry ( talk) 07:15, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=User:Dhulipalla_Narendra_Kumar?veaction=edit
Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar ( talk) 12:55, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
So I decided to test editing of Template:Use British English. It has one parameter (a date field) and no TemplateData set up for it. In the Add a template dialog, I click "Add template", and see, in very faint grey, "No unused fields". The user guide (in draft), says:
So, I type "1", and click on the offered field. "No unused fields" is still in faint grey, which is odd - I just used the only available field.
I type in a value for the field, then go to the "Field name" box, and type in "2". VE offers me the ability to set up a second parameter/field, which I take. I add a value for that parameter. No warning that I've used two many paramaters. The faint grey text is unchanges: "No unused fields".
I click "Insert"; the template is added to the page. No warning of an excess parameter. I save the edit. No warning of an excess parameter.
It wouldn't surprise me if VE hasn't figured out, without TemplateData, exactly how many parameters are in a template. But if that's the case, why is there text in the dialog box that certainly strongly implies that VE is tracking this? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:17, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Adding info and results for a couple of Olympians, Mihran Jaburyan and Aliaksandr Buikevich. |
Steps to Reproduce: | Originally I tried to edit
Mihran Jaburyan adding both text and references. Tried to save it and it wouldn't giving me a Parsoid: 500 error. I stopped, dismissed my changes and tried again. This time I got a Parsoid: 400 error. On neither occasion could I switch to the source editor and save that way. I dismissed my changes again, added the text using the source editor, saved, then added the references using VE and saved. That worked fine.
The next article I tried to edit, Martina Kohlová worked fine, although I only added text to that one, so I didn't think anything of it. I then tried to edit Aliaksandr Buikevich, again with text and references and again it didn't save, giving me an unknown error. This time, I added the info to one sentence, saved, added the references and saved again. I then added both text and references, and it worked fine, so I'm not sure if it's a real bug or just a random blip. |
Results: | What happened? |
Expectations: | What were your expectations instead? |
Page where the issue occurs | Add URL(s) or diffs |
Web browser | Chrome 45.0.2454.85 m |
Operating system | Windows 8 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | It seems to be a very intermittent problem, and I wouldn't have reported it had it not happened twice. |
Workaround or suggested solution | The only one I can see is by saving edits in smaller chunks. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 01:28, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
The standard format for displayed mathematical equations is like
:<math>x^2+y^2</math>
which displays as
with a single : indentation. I can't see a way to create this in VE at the moment. The equation editing dialog gives a normal, block and inline option for equations these create <math display="block">...</math>
etc, which centers the equation rather than giving the stand one level indentation.--
Salix alba (
talk): 20:56, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
.mwe-math-fallback-image-display,
.mwe-math-mathml-display {
margin-left: 1.6em !important;
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
in ext.math.css
with margin-left: 1.6em;
. (I trust flipping will be accounted for). Perhaps the HTML parser/Parsoid can substitute the colon for the display class. Didn't the old math code used to scan for :<math...
? -- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
20:27, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
15:42, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
One big missing feature in the VE is the lack of an indentation tool to increase or decrease the wiki-style semantic indentation of content (the equivalent of prefixing a line with more or fewer ":" characters in wikitext).
If this was to be implemented using the same UI as typical word processors, with "increase indent" and "decrease indent" buttons, this would be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever used a word processor (hence zero learning curve), would instantly and intuitively eliminate problems like the math indentation problem above, and also help greatly with the eventual use of the VE for editing talk pages, something which only really now requires a signing tool and indentation control to deal with 95% of use cases. Given how I understand the VE to work, an indentation control should be trivial to implement. Can we have this, please? -- The Anome ( talk) 15:30, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
;Word :Definition
I'm afraid this hasn't been thought through all the way. VisualEditor does not permit users to sign pages. Contrary to what seems to have been assumed when this change was made yesterday (i.e., enabling VE throughout Wikipedia "project" space), the overwhelming majority of pages in Wikipedia space require users to sign their edits. It is not going to go well if new users, who may well have adopted VE when they start editing in article space, come to Wikipedia space and start getting yelled at for not signing their edits, or not being able to figure out what they have to do in order to sign their edits. (Bear in mind, I'm writing this 48 hours or so after we've just blocked a whole pile of "new user" like sockpuppets, and there is a high level of suspicion of new users right now.) Please reconsider this. I believe it will have a negative effect on uptake of VE by more experienced editors, and will result in unplanned newbie-bashing. Wait until you've figured out how to include a 'sign your edit' button in VE. Risker ( talk) 04:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF) and Jdforrester (WMF): please can you do something about this ASAP, please, preferably by disabling this for now, going back and proposing a design solution for signing, then getting the user community happy with that before implementing and deploying? Risker is quite right about the risk of this resulting in unnecessary newbie-bashing. -- The Anome ( talk) 19:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
There is a task T53154 about adding a tool to add signatures in VE, but it is marked as WONTFIX. I disagree with this position, for a small bit of work VE would be usable in other namespaces. Yes it may not be as designed and may not be perfect for the task, but it would be possible. This becomes a lot more relevant now as it looks like Flow is being put on the back-burner. Flow being one of the reasons behind the WONTFIX.-- Salix alba ( talk): 09:01, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
* I think we should consider this in the light of [[WP:BBQ|this other discussion]] <sig>\n*: Yes I agree <sig2>
; clicking the cursor at the end of that and pressing "return" needs to add a new menu item, and un-indent to the root. If you're writing content, instead you'd want to extend a list at the current indent level – something you'd almost never want to do when using the hacky "system" of OLs, ULs and DLs we abuse for unstructured wikitext talk pages.* I think we should consider this in the light of [[WP:BBQ|this other discussion]] <sig>\n*: Yes I agree <sig2>
), you'd want to put the cursor after <sig2>
, press return and be indented by one, not outdented to the base level. Again, this would be actively not wanted for writing content.<br />
vs. a </p><p>
vs. a </li><li>
when they press return mid-edit, or exactly which kind of list indenting bastardy they wish to inflict on this line, or…. :-)URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Carus,_Oregon&veaction=edit
After editing this page in Visual Editor, I hit "Save Page", then got this error message: Something went wrong! parasoid-server-http HTTP 400
Miltritterprod ( talk) 05:38, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
The VE is rarely loading for me over the past several days. Starts loading, screen goes grey, but no progress bar. It's become close to unusuable. A lot of my recent source edits have been because I just could not get the VE to load. Is this a VE problem? Is this some problem to do with my browser, my computer, my star sign?
I had been about to switch over to doing training on the VE but at the moment I don't think I can if I cannot work out my problem which will impact on demonstration and whether or not it is likely to affect the people attending the training. Also with the roll-out to new users, are they being affected by it? Can you tell how many attempted-but-failed loads are occurring? 22:44, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Odd nowiki addition. Not sure, why a nowiki tag would be added here - please forward this to the devs working on nowiki behaviour, if it's a new case (may be related to the ISBN case further up, but not sure - feel free to merge). GermanJoe ( talk) 16:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE added nowiki tags around a big chunck of text, because someone typed text with 2 single quotes instead of double quote. But the nowiki tags should be around the problematic text, not extended to the nearby text in both ways up to the next single quote that is alone. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE added nowiki tags around nothing at the end of a table cell. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:48, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, Cscott: In this edit, VE damaged a working reference by putting nowiki tags around the opening ref tag. It's probably because the name attribute contains an opening quote and no closing quote. But before VE edit, the reference was displayed correctly, while the result with VE is a visually damaged article. Please fix VE/Parsoid so that articles are not damaged. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:39, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, haven't really wrote in a long time but I noticed something and thought that it should be reported. I saw above some people saying that they were having problems with saving a page after editing. From what I understood they couldn't save at all... In my end, when I clicked save, my edit did get saved but instead of taking back to the article, the pop up window to save a page was still open. My summary was not there...it looked like I had just finished my edits and clicked "save page" at the top right button. I checked on history and saw that my edit was saved.
I am editing on Google Chrome, Windows 8. TeamGale (talk) 09:30, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
In this edit, VE damaged a title, making a correct title into a mess with displayed "==" and text merged in the same line as the title. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 14:02, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
It would be real nice if I could right align within a table without going to the edit source.
Kcwhbjr ( talk) 18:01, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Copy/pasting whole sections with Visual Editor is still somewhat of a hassle:
System specs: Windows XP, FF 40.0.3, Vector skin, desktop version. If you have further questions or the description is unclear, please ping me. GermanJoe ( talk) 11:51, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Wanted to do this with V/E |
Steps to Reproduce: | |
Results: | got error message parsoidserver-http: HTTP 400 |
Expectations: | thought I could fix a typo |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | Firefox |
Operating system | Lynux |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution | Edit the page once with the wikitext editor to force a refresh. |
Ϣere SpielChequers 11:36, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Note - this may need a second look. The timeline is not completely clear, but the error has been reported again a few hours ago on help desk (see new info in Phab thread). GermanJoe ( talk) 02:53, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=User:Raiseyourvibration?veaction=edit
After I edited, I could not save it: "Something went wrong. parsoidserver-http: HTTP 400."
Raiseyourvibration ( talk) 16:32, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ka%C3%A7anik_Gorge&veaction=edit...I would need the origianal artical to make sense of this...there are too many missing punctuations and too many literal translations inserted to get the gist of what is going on here. I wowuld only be guessing as to the sense of the article as it presently exists.
JohnHBell (
talk) 11:03, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
When the citation's contents are (only) [3], then the contents are invisible in the Re-use dialog and in the context menu. You can see an example at Fruit snack, in the third ref (after "General Mills" in the lead). I can reproduce this in Firefox and Safari on Mac OS 10.10. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:01, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I was using the automatic citation function on Apostolos Gkountoulas. A lot of the pages I was adding were WorldRowing.com results pages. The actual pages are called things like http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2009-world-championships/mens-pair/final/ and have the detail of the event in the title, but the automatic citation gadget reads the title from the website, which is 'event' so they all show up as - Events - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
Is there any way of getting round this or is it a problem with the way the worldrowing website is written? Red Fiona ( talk) 23:47, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
SSastry, User:cscott ISBN are still put between nowiki tags. When will this stop? An example with other damages done by VE:
[[reliquaire]]<nowiki/>s
<sup>1</sup>
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:37, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | add a picture to a wikipedia page because I want to |
Steps to Reproduce: | I am using the visual editor to edit a wikipedia page. To insert a picture I uploaded in the wikimedia commons, I clicked insert, then media. I then typed into the search box many possible searches for my picture, including file name, description, and words in the file name and description. I can't find my picture, thus I can't upload it. But it definitely exists in the wikimedia commons. It would be a ridiculously simple upload with the old system, I just copy the URL into the wikipedia page. As far as I know, uploaded photos can only be added with the visual editor through the insert media thing I just tried. Good lord, this should be so easy, I hope I'm just ignorant and there is an easier way I haven't found with my stupid eyes. Please help. |
Results: | already described above |
Expectations: | already described above |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | google chrome |
Operating system | microsoft 9 |
Skin | |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Bobologist ( talk) 00:30, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit the Reception section from Dismaland. If I cut a word or phrase from some other source and try and paste it in. The whole page scrolls placing the line I've just pasted either as the last line in the screen or just below the bottom of the window. This is very distracting, as I then need to rescan the page to find where I was editing. Google Chrome on a Mac Book. -- Salix alba ( talk): 16:45, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Looks like it works properly now.-- Salix alba ( talk): 06:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Moving in-text references to another spot in the article has a minor bug in Visual Editor. Take AdPushup (a terrible article, but a good example): see the cite spam in "history", refs 7, 1, 8, 3, 9, 2. Trying to drag and drop reference 3 (with the mouse) somewhere else within this list of references does not work - the dragging is OK but dropping is not possible: the mouse cursor keeps being displayed as stop sign for "action not possible". Dropping the reference is only possible outside the list in the main text, not between 2 other references. It should be possible to drop a reference between 2 complete, correctly defined, reference structures (specs: Windows XP, FF 40.0.3, vector) ==> Actually, dropping of all correctly closed tags should be possible between all correctly closed tags. GermanJoe ( talk) 14:19, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
I was trying to move the photo of the mill in Wallaville (the version that I was working on) into the History section (positioned on the left because of the infobox). I selected the mill photo (went "blue"), I dragged it up to the History section where a line appears after the heading where I "let go" and drop it. But the photo doesn't move - it stays at the bottom of the page. I did it a number of times without success, so I cheated and looked at the wikitext as I suspected the answer was there. Sure enough, it turned out the photo of the church and then followed by the photo of the mill are at the start of the article and so the repositioning of the mill photo into the history section doesn't alter its positioning relative to the church photo so it remains at the end of the article. So, the only way I could achieve the outcome using the VE was first move the church photo to the bottom of the article, then move the mill photo to the top of the history section and left-position it and then reposition the church photo, but how is the VE user to work that out? I think there needs to be some kind of visual anchoring of the photos just as templates have, so the visual anchors can be reliably dragged-and-dropped to reorder them. Kerry ( talk) 00:35, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cuexcomate&veaction=edit&vesection=6
This acticle contains a series of bare html links. Attempting to edit them the first time gives an add label button. Clicking this auto labels them with the url. On attempting to edit again there is no way to change the label.
Phatom87 ( talk • contribs) 18:44, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
In my closed Mediawiki the Visual Editor ist freezing at start of the editing. I can not reproduce that behavior each time, but it happened at 1 of 10 startups. The Console of my firebug shows the following:
TypeError: origin is null ....cloneObject=function(origin){var key,r;r=createObject(origin.constructor.protot... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.31.198.71 ( talk) 12:19, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Fix the problem at startup of the VE |
Steps to Reproduce: | #Open a random page
|
Results: | The loading bar is standing still. |
Expectations: | Java - Script error with the following Errormessage in firebug: TypeError: origin is null ....cloneObject=function(origin){var key,r;r=createObject(origin.constructor.protot... |
Page where the issue occurs | my local mediawiki |
Web browser | In Firefox 40.0.3 and IE11 |
Operating system | Windows 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | The Mediawiki Version is 1.26wmf21 and Parsoid Version is 0.4.0. I'm using a Linux server. |
Workaround or suggested solution | Reaload the page and try again |
121.54.54.220 ( talk) 14:20, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
I want visual editor but I. Am a IP address and I can't get account as I prefer to edit via ip please let ip edit using visual editor please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.175.243.206 ( talk) 23:30, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
action=edit
to veaction=edit
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:19, 6 October 2015 (UTC)(crossposting from WT:VE)
Hey all,
This is just a quick note to highlight that the location for the visual editor’s preference is about to move – from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences (as is currently the case on almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta” though).
This action will not change anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users will continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab will still be after the “Edit source” one.
We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case there are, please let us know here as usual! This should be done in the next few days, and I’ll post a follow-up message then. Best, Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 21:37, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
This is now done. You can read a longer note at WT:VE if you’re interested in details. Best, Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 15:09, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Dragging and dropping an image into the start of a definition list shouldn't be so easy to do (or maybe not even possible at all). I think it will be easy to reproduce if you have a ==Section== that starts with ;an association list, and you drag an image into it. I've got a screenshot; ping me if you want me to upload it to a bug report. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:37, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
My visual editor option has disappeared and went I look in my beta tab, it's no longer listed there as an option. GLG GLG ( talk) 15:07, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
The 'save page' dialog does not appear no matter how many times I click the 'save page' button
My Chemistry romantic ( talk) 10:06, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Please, fix VE, single nowiki tags were already bad enough, but piling them up uselessly is even worse...
3 nowiki tags in a row <nowiki/><nowiki/><nowiki/>
. I don't even mention the many other edits on this article were damaging nowiki tags were added by VE. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 21:22, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
I am trying to edit the article 2015 Southeast Asian haze and more than half the article is displayed under the 'References' section. The text is displayed as wikitext while the tables are shown as they would be displayed in VisualEditor. My Chemistry romantic ( talk) 03:39, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | I tried to add gallery. |
Steps to Reproduce: | I moved cursor to end od the line and clicked to add gallery.
Please mention if it's reproduceable/if you attempted to reproduce or not. --> |
Results: | The page jumped (scrolled) lower so I had to scroll back to reach that popup and add thect in it. |
Expectations: | I expected no schrolling or moving of the page. |
Page where the issue occurs | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Dominikmatus/P%C3%ADskovi%C5%A1t%C4%9B |
Web browser | Chrome |
Operating system | Win 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Dominikmatus ( talk) 13:38, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=List_of_bus_routes_in_Perth,_Western_Australia?veaction=edit
When I am in editing view, the bullet points for route 98 seems to have extra space above and below it..
102 at 1625 ( talk) 13:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
But I'm finding that sometimes when I leave an edit page open for a long time (> 15 minutes), I am sometimes logged out mid-edit and therefore have to save as an IP or lose the changes I've made. I'm not sure why it logs me out. Red Fiona ( talk) 12:48, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I am having troubles inserting Worldcat refs in Visual Editor (ex: https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results). There seem to be a bug with the import of ISBN-10 and 13 from Worldcat.
Visual Editor (citoid?) seems to import 13 characters for a ISBN-10, leading to an error after import. (for ex. Roberts-Jones, Philippe; Roberts-Jones, Françoise (2002-01-01). Pieter Bruegel. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0810935317 97 Check |isbn= value (help).) When IBSN-13 is also imported (though not in ENwiki), the import leads to a 12 characters(?) import for an ISBN-13. In my example in FRwiki, you would get "(en) Philippe Roberts-Jones et Françoise Roberts-Jones, Pieter Bruegel, Harry N. Abrams,1er janvier 2002 (ISBN 0810935317 97[à vérifier : ISBN invalide] et 8081093531[à vérifier : ISBN invalide], lire en ligne)"
This should have led to ENwiki: Philippe Roberts-Jones (1 November 2002). Pieter Bruegel. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-3531-0.
When using Visual Editor on FRwiki, one would get the following code generated {{Ouvrage|langue = English|prénom1 = Philippe|nom1 = Roberts-Jones|prénom2 = Françoise|nom2 = Roberts-Jones|titre = Pieter Bruegel|éditeur = Harry N. Abrams|date = 2002-01-01|isbn = 0810935317 97|isbn2 = 8081093531|lire en ligne = https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results|consulté le = 2015-10-18}} instead of {{Ouvrage|langue = English|prénom1 = Philippe|nom1 = Roberts-Jones|prénom2 = Françoise|nom2 = Roberts-Jones|titre = Pieter Bruegel|éditeur = Harry N. Abrams|date = 2002-01-01|isbn = 0810935317 |isbn2 = 9780810935310|lire en ligne = https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results|consulté le = 2015-10-18}}.
I tried through Citoid public API for double checking and it lead to the same problem with the import( https://citoid.wikimedia.org/api?format=mediawiki&search=https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157&referer=brief_results) and I get the following (shortened version): [{"itemType":"book","notes":[],"tags":[],"libraryCatalog":"Open WorldCat","language":"English","title":"Pieter Bruegel","publisher":"Harry N. Abrams","place":"New York","date":"2002-01-01","ISBN":["0810935317 97","8081093531"],"abstractNote":"\" [...] .\"--Jacket.","url":"https://www.worldcat.org/title/pieter-bruegel/oclc/49531157","accessDate":"2015-10-18","author":[["Philippe","Roberts-Jones"],["Françoise","Roberts-Jones"]]}]
Thanks for taking the time to consider this Afernand74 ( talk) 18:49, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed the improved link-editing interface, making it clear (and easy to change) which part of the text will be part of the link or not.
One issue I have is that when typing a search term, a large drop-down list appears. This automatically scrolls the screen far down, to the point where the "Done" button is obscured by the editing menu. In fact, at first I could not figure out how to save the changes at all, until I noticed the "Done" button. (Windows 7, Firefox, Vector) -- Ypnypn ( talk) 20:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
When a table end |}
is missing, and VE has no clue where the table should really end, it shouldn't
add it at random, especially at a place that is obviously a mistake... --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 13:48, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Please, stop VE from
adding a useless "link" attribute to the image itself [[Fichier:Euphydryas_editha_5679.JPG|link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Euphydryas_editha_5679.JPG|thumb|''Euphydryas editha'']]
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 21:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Looks like Citoid has trouble interpreting language code information, I just noticed this behaviour in several articles with Indian sources. See for example [6]. In "Travel Challenges" the last sentence is "Recently, GoUNESCO has started organising fun runs at World Heritage Sites including Hampi,[9], Bidar,[10], Warangal,[11], and Ooty,[12]". Using any of the URLs in the 4 references (I already converted them) to create an automatic citation with Citoid, Citoid reports a language of "en-IN" (example URL #9: [7]). Now that's technically correct of course, but as an English variant such values make little sense to report on the English Wikipedia, and may better be omitted for Citoid usage. And even if they are not omitted, it would be better to "translate" those codes into their readable standard language names. This is not really a bug, but somewhere between URL -> Citoid -> citation template, the handling of language codes and language variants could use another look. (specs as always: Win XP, FF 40.0.3, vector skin) PS: According to Template:cite web the template (and all other CS1 templates probably) only accept ISO 639-1 codes or just "English" (or nothing) in this example. Disclaimer: I don't know the technical background there, you may need to contact someone more knowledgeable in the coding and logic for CS1. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:54, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
xml:lang="en" lang="en"
. The article is clearly written in English. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:30, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thirdparty_bia&veaction=edit
3rdpartybia ( talk) 18:53, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
I was adding {{ According to whom}} to an article and the blurb at the top was exactly like this:
{{GENDER:$3|You are adding}} the "$1" template to this page. It doesn't yet have a description, but there might be some information on the <a $2>template's page</a>.
So there is something not rendering as designed here. I can supply a screenshot if required. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 14:03, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
See User:99of9/sandbox3#Test_5 -- 99of9 ( talk) 02:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
See this edit by USer:JaJaWa that shows multiple problems with VE:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 07:43, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | |
Steps to Reproduce: | Problem is reproducible with these steps:
|
Results: | The blank edit summary reminder appears, even though an edit summary is there. |
Expectations: | The page should be saved, with no reminder. |
Page where the issue occurs | |
Web browser | Firefox 41.0.2 |
Operating system | Mac OS 10.10.5 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
— Granger ( talk · contribs) 22:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
If they is being done by VE we need to shut it down until it is fixed.
In this edit [8]
All these hard spaces have been added [9] Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 02:19, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
I like the VisualEditor a lot. Occasionally, I'd like to be able to switch to source editing to do some specific work and then switch back to visual editing. I know how to do the former, but then I've not been able to figure out how to get the VisualEditor back. -- RaymondYee ( talk) 14:48, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I added Red5 content to the page below but for some reason the text in the first column is centered throughout the edit whereas the existing content is aligned to the left. Is there a way to fix this? URL: /info/en/?search=Comparison_of_streaming_media_systems?veaction=edit
JamesMaynard ( talk) 21:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 85%; border: gray solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse; text-align: center; width: 100%;"
. The "text-align:center" part says that the contents of all table cells should be centered. The right-aligned cells have been individually and manually set to right-alignment, via the {{
rh}} template (which only adds that long string of gobbledegook again, this time for the individual cell only, but it's quicker to type). VisualEditor does not support changing the formatting of individual table cells. Therefore, this cannot be done in VisualEditor at this time.The visualeditor reference names of ":0" and the like are causing problems for User:AnomieBOT, which has a routine that fixes orphaned references. Because of the thousands and thousands of references named ":0", Anomie had to edit their bot to ignore visual editor references, meaning that orphaned references created by visualeditor will not be fixed. The refnames used by Visualeditor need to be unique to avoid this problem. Perhaps the software could maintain a counter and name them "VE1" "VE2" "VE3", and have unique names for each references even on different pages. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 06:16, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Since Friday 6 November I have seen six reports from VE users that they just keep being asked for captchas:
PrimeHunter ( talk) 06:27, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: /info/en/?search=Nic_Marks?veaction=edit
It won't let me save my changes - I'm stuck in a captcha loop
Stolenchild66 ( talk) 20:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Ukulelle/sandbox&veaction=edit&vesection=4
Markdarryl ( talk) 01:35, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | fixing a wikilink to point to Maryborough railway station, Queensland |
Steps to Reproduce: | Clicked on "edit source" (rather than "edit" -- my mistake) on the section "Heritage listings" in Maryborough, Queensland. It opened in the source editor, I realised I had intended to use the VE, so I clicked Edit at the top of the screen and I switched into VE mode. I made my little change and then Saved. |
Results: | Deleted all the other sections of the article except the Heritage listings |
Expectations: | Editing a section doesn't delete the rest of the article! |
Page where the issue occurs | diff |
Web browser | |
Operating system | |
Skin | |
Notes: | It looks like doing section editing with the source editor and then switching into the VE (even if you have not made any changes) gives the VE only the current section to work with. Any SAVE then destroys the rest of the article. Kerry ( talk) 07:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC) |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Kerry ( talk) 07:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
---|---|
Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Add a link to Alison Cerutti from Martins Plavins. |
Steps to Reproduce: | I was updating the text on
Martins Plavins and wanted to add a link to
Alison Cerutti. I did what I normally did, which is select the text by mouse and then going up to the link button in the toolbar. Because I'd only put Cerutti's surname, he didn't come up, which was expected behaviour. I therefore type his full name in and saw that an article did indeed exist for that player (). However, when I select that link it only gives a redlink .
I did the same thing for Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil just after so it's not a repeatable issue. |
Results: | Gave a red link |
Expectations: | Links properly to Alison Cerutti. |
Page where the issue occurs | Martins Plavins |
Web browser | Chrome 46.0.2490.80 |
Operating system | Windows 10 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | Any additional information. Can you provide a screenshot, if relevant? |
Workaround or suggested solution | I opened the page in source editor, saw that it had linked properly and saved. Opened Martins Plavins in a new tab and it worked fine. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 04:04, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
When I opened the VE interface to start editing Elizabeth Palmer, there were suddenly two large flashing blue dots under the link and cite points. What in heaven's name is that about? Risker ( talk) 02:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd call them "beacons"; regardless, they are not a standard icon/feature/approach on any software or web page that I'm aware of, and appear to violate the Principle of least astonishment. If these two are really important, then a blue, circled "i" (as in "information), not changing intensity, is a much better choice.
Why is this important? Because at least some percentage of potential editors are going to think that something is wrong; many of them are not going to click on the beacons to see what they mean, but rather will just close the page to get rid of the "weird things". And as for experienced editors, these beacons are going to be another indication that the VE developers just don't understand user design - something we don't need if we want to convince experienced editors that VE has significantly matured. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Is there supposed to be a limit to then number of times, within a single editing session, that a user can switch between VE and the wikitext editor? I ask because in doing a test, I found that after a couple of switches, I could no longer get from the wikitext editor to VE by clicking on the "Edit" tab. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:49, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
I've a odd problem. If I start editing and article with the wikitext editor, then switch to the visual editor and save the page. The displayed page title will be "Editing ....". To be precise
Note it also temporarily changes the <title>...</title>
tag, of the page.
Not a great bug, but it did lead to some confusion. After editing a page I switched to another tab, then looked backed at the old tab, which was still saying Editing ..... This confused be for a bit as I thought I had finished editing the page but the page title was indicating I had not. -- Salix alba ( talk): 10:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Try adding a link to ionic compound (click the link button before you have written the words). Like here Ionic compound. In the link box, type "ionic compound" (all lowercase). It gives you two options to link to, the lowercase "ionic compound" and the capitalized "Ionic compound". Click to choose the lowercase one. In goes the link, but its always capitalized and you then have to go back into the word and edit it. It should give you the capitalization you chose. 99of9 ( talk) 12:44, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Visual Editor opt in does not appear despite being logged in.
Mieczkowski ( talk) 20:13, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
When will Citoid be able to take an ISBN and generate a citation? I ask because this functionality has been available for many years, elsewhere: OttoBib generates citations, when an ISBN is entered; the output can be set to be in Wikipedia format. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_anime_conventions&veaction=edit&vesection=1ted in 2012
Anime Fusion Bloomington, Minnesota Held in October Started in 2012
Lawbunnie007 ( talk) 21:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
To reproduce, try opening this revision of the November 2015 Paris attacks page with the VisualEditor. The page looks fine until the "Attacks" subsection, at which point raw wikitext becomes visible, starting with the text
{{quote box↵|title=Timeline of attacks↵|align=left↵|width=25%↵|quote=↵13 November
and then most of the rest of the page following that is lost. It's been some time since I've seen the VE break on a high-profile page like this. Browser: Firefox 42 on Debian Linux 8, on x86-64. Also verified with Firefox 42, and Safari, on MacOS X El Capitan. -- The Anome ( talk) 11:11, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
<ref name="reuterstimeline />
contains unpaird quotation marks. The wikitext has been corrected since then.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't envy the VE team's task, as I have some understanding of the challenges involved in maintaining backward compatible in messy, running systems without breaking them. If you take a look at how the HTML5 team resolved the similar problem with rigorously defining a parser that was backwards compatible with the ad-hoc heuristic parsing of various previous flavours of HTML in earlier browsers, you can see the scope of the problem. In particular, you can never have an invalid document in a workable wikitext system: only a document that does something that perhaps does something you didn't expect it to do, otherwise human editing of wikitext will become impossible without programmer-level debugging skills. -- The Anome ( talk) 19:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Hmm, interesting. I've asked if this is something that Check Wikipedia can pick up. Regardless of VE, it might also be bad for 3rd party tools. And it's ugly :). Phab ticket created as well. Though I wouldn't mind if this is tackled in the PHP parser, rather than in Parsoid..— TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 09:56, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Another big problem related to editing a section first in wikitext.
This removes all other sections of the article. See for example section edit to Machadodorp the edit was intended just to link a particular author but instead deleted the rest of the article leaving just the section edited.-- Salix alba ( talk): 06:37, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
It would be helpful to include a way to add an ISBN link.
Presidentman talk · contribs ( Talkback) 16:31, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I was doing quite a time consuming edit on National Cycle Route 2. I started in wikitext. Switched to VE. As it was a long edit I saved halfway through. I then started editing again in VE and the popup box asking if I wanted to keep the changes appeared? -- Salix alba ( talk): 10:21, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
VE does quite a good job in allowing me to paste in a wikipedia URL like /info/en/?search=Southampton and producing an internal link Southampton. It fails if I try something like /info/en/?search=Raymond%27s_Hill which has a escaped ' (%27), just inserting an unlinked URL.-- Salix alba ( talk): 10:30, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
I've used the cite conversion tool on an article where the same bare link cite was used more than once. Alas, it just converted that single instance, leaving the others as-is. When bare links are converted to cites, the VE should name the converted reference, check for the presence of any more instances of the same bare link in the article, and convert those to references to that named reference. -- The Anome ( talk) 12:15, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
As a related issue to the above, the autoconversion tool should always generate <ref> names for each reference it converts. Ideally, that name could contain some semantically meaningful label made from an author's name or publication name, but even a label like "a26" would be better than nothing. (Of course, whatever name generation process is used, it should contain checks to ensure uniqueness within the article.) Even if this label is not used elsewhere at the time, having it in the article wikitext will make longer-term maintenance of the article easier, even if it's only for editors editing the wikitext directly. -- The Anome ( talk) 12:22, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm guessing that this has been reported many times before, but just in case: this VE edit resulted in a number of unnecessary nowiki tags. (Perhaps ironically, I was using VE to edit a help page about using VE; the edit "broke" the page entirely.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Can I get visual editor for ur.wikipedia.org? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shansajid ( talk • contribs) 11:58, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Please participate in the discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 10#Publisher plus.google.com.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 15:42, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
|publisher=
with a plus.google.com external link and adding an invalid |language=it-IT
.
Keith D (
talk) 02:29, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Okay, I've asked Keegan. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt"/>
. VE's "Automatic" option to fill out a reference from a url produces: publisher = https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt
. Html like <link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/...>
is recommended at for example
[12]. Such publisher information should probably be ignored when references are generated automatically.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+FootballScoutingIt"/>
|language=it-IT
" what is being done about sorting out the invalid language parameters in these citations and avoiding adding language parameter of English.
Keith D (
talk) 19:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
mw.language.fetchLanguageName()
. It would be nice if there were a similar function that was restricted to listing only the language code registered at the
IANA language subtag registry along with a similar function for country codes and better, some way of knowing that the language code / country code pair when used together made some sort of sense: en-IN, es-MX but not pt-IS.
Names.php might be adapted but because it serves multiple purposes such adaptation might not be compatible with this use.|language=English
. When English is the only language listed,
Module:Citation/CS1 ignores it. There are those who would rather that AWB did not remove |language=English
as part of
general fixes. Certainly those at the
WP:MED translation project would prefer that |language=English
not be deleted. See
this discussion.1. I would like to delete that [1] note/template I tried to insert but doesn't work. What can I do?
2. Is there any possibility to create an additional box? (i.e. to have two templates?) I tried to create an other one with Andres' Medals but it completely changed the design (all the content went into the template when I saved the page)
Thank you for your reply Regards Stéphane
Stephanefasel ( talk) 13:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in this , VE damaged a well formed titled by putting it at the end of the previous line (keeping the ==). -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 20:14, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Following on from discussion above about VE auto filling in of references there is a problem with this always completing dates in ISO format rather than honouring the date format of the article. Thus you end up with much more inconsistency in articles and have to keep following round edits to put the dates in the right format for the article such as day first format. The added reference should have its dates in the major format of the article, ISO being used if there is a mixture that you cannot determine which format to put it in. The presence of {{ use dmy dates}} or {{ use mdy dates}} templates can show which to use. Keith D ( talk) 01:45, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to bring this up, but I can't figure out how to assign names to references using VE. If I choose to reuse an existing reference, VE will name the reference with names like :0 and :1. I can't figure out how to change this short of manually editing the reference name (which is fine for me, but VE isn't for people like me - it's for new users). Am I correct - is it actually impossible to edit reference names within VE? Guettarda/ Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:18, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
|author=
and |date=
fields in the citation templates) and to allow editors to re-name them manually. However, I'm not realistically expecting progress on either of these points during the next few months.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:31, 8 December 2015 (UTC)Many articles expose bare urls in their refs. I'd love for ve to offer a way to fix this. If a ref is formatted as <ref>http://.... I'd love for VE to put the url in one field and offer a second field where I could put the title. This is particularly important for pdfs and for the NYT that don't respond well to VE's cite builder. Thanks! Lfstevens ( talk) 07:11, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/</ref>
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa</ref>
<ref>http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ aaa]</ref>
Finally, I'd change the Convert process so that after conversion it takes you to the fields dialog without the intermediate Insert and Edit steps.
Cheers! Lfstevens ( talk) 01:59, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Currently, something like {{subst:foobar}} seems not to be substituted in a reference. Is it possible to insert {{subst:#tag:ref}} instead of <ref></ref> as a reference? I cannot think of drawbacks in this change but I want to hear from experts about the problem. ktns ( talk) 18:24, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{subst:NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}}}
, which results in the wikitext <ref>126,428</ref>
being added
at the moment. But why would you want to do this?
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 02:43, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
for parameters such as date
parameter of {{
dead link}}. With this feature, I think it is convinient to be able to set current date as default value for such parameters.
ktns (
talk) 15:28, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | |
Steps to Reproduce: | Upon entering VE.
Then finished my edit and reproduced by entering again. |
Results: | Refs were counted in the editor otherwise than on article display.
Ref #1 (in the infobox) remained #1.
Ref #2 (in the main text) turned into another ref #1. The following refs continued this count. as a result, the inline numbers did not mactch the ref-section numbers when viewing the editor. |
Expectations: | One continuous count of refs as in article viewing |
Page where the issue occurs | /info/en/?search=Find_My_Baby?veaction=edit |
Web browser | Firefox 41 |
Operating system | Win7 Home premium SP1 |
Skin | Monobook |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
trespassers william ( talk) 17:51, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Being able to control sortability would be extremely useful by adding class="sortable"
to the style to bring it in line with the Wiki Markup toolbar.
T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)
talk 12:49, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | edit gallery |
Steps to Reproduce: | I turned on VE editing |
Results: | gallery showed only in one column ( look here) |
Expectations: | normal look, in rows and columns |
Page where the issue occurs | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Dominikmatus/Pískoviště |
Web browser | Chrome, Firefox, Opera |
Operating system | WIN 7 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | |
Workaround or suggested solution |
Dominikmatus ( talk) 22:15, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
The VisualEditor recently expanded the mathematics tool, and I'm looking for more feedback on the overall design, whether it seems to be working for you (browser/OS if it's not), and whether anything significant is missing. Click here to play in my sandbox if you want to start on a page that contains a math formula. Double-click on existing formulae to open them, or go to Insert > More > Formula to add new ones, and let me know what you think. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
More of a general comment than a bug report, but it seems like cross-wiki uploads via VE have a significantly higher rate of copyvios compared to the "old" upload methods. Especially logos and similar content seem to be problematic. In the last 2 days I noticed 4 of such cases (obviously that's nowhere near a sufficient sample size), and skimming briefly through Commons recent "cross-wiki" uploads the failure rate could be as high as 20-30 percent. A few questions: 1) is anyone still monitoring those uploads to analyze the feature's rate of wrong uploads? 2) Is anything planned to improve this feature? Frankly, two sentences of vague information and a trivial checkbox isn't exactly "high-tech security". Especially new editors are left alone with almost no meaningful advice. Of course a simple browser-based application cannot explain everything about copyright in 5 minutes - but a bit more specific advice could be useful. Also, the information text should be displayed more clearly as "warning", not merely as skippable "information" (red is a great color for instance, or a warning sign might help a bit). GermanJoe ( talk) 22:41, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
See history:
Please fix. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 15:19, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
— TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 23:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
It's not hard to reproduce the "small" problem. See this diff. The steps are this:
If you pasted it near pre-existing small text (e.g., there is already a source listed and marked as small text, and you are pasting in a second source, perhaps on multiple lines throughout the document), then you'll get <small>original</small> <small>new</small> – "original" in small text, a normal size space, and "new" in small text.
Since some people use <small> and <big> to visually adjust the size of spaces, I'm not certain that this is something that Parsoid should disallow. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:40, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
</small>
just before a <small>
without anything in between... But even the ones with a whitespace character in between should be handled properly without creating a complete mess in the wikitext. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki) 03:40, 18 December 2015 (UTC)URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Lua_(programming_language)§ion=7&veaction=edit
75.110.221.86 ( talk) 01:11, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
VE is adding infoboxes without newlines. This make it very hard for people not using VE to manually edit the infoboxes. Examples are [15] and [16]. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{fact|date=December 2015}}
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Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk) 18:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Bug report | VisualEditor |
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Mito.money | Please app{} |
Intention: | Add a reference |
Steps to Reproduce: | Wrote something, tried to add a reference to [17] using the auto cite. Got the 'We couldn't make a citation for you. You can create one manually using the "Manual" tab above.' message. |
Results: | Got the 'We couldn't make a citation for you. You can create one manually using the "Manual" tab above.' message. |
Expectations: | To be able to add the references using the automatic cite function. |
Page where the issue occurs | Trying to add [18] to Rachel Dawson. |
Web browser | Chrome 47.0.2526.106 |
Operating system | Windows 10 |
Skin | Vector |
Notes: | Slightly confused because automatic citation creator was working earlier today (see this diff - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Kim_Young-ran_(field_hockey)&oldid=695770328) with sports-reference.com pages. |
Workaround or suggested solution | Just added it manually. |
Red Fiona ( talk) 21:08, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Looks like a minor bug: clicking on any template once (i.e. in Hockenheim, Windows XP, FF 42.0, vector skin) displays the correct puzzle symbol, but next to it the text "Item" is displayed instead of "Template" (it should also immediately display the name of the clicked template, afaik). That preview window (or however developers call that small initial window :) ) also lacks an "Edit" button. Other preview windows for other types of insertable elements seem to be OK, although I didn't check every element type (Media, Reference, Reference list and Link were OK at least). GermanJoe ( talk) 05:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I am currently seeing any template present in the VE as "item" without the ability to edit it. Using Chromium on Ubuntu Linux 15. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 04:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This is regarding the dit i made using VisualEditor: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=ISO_3166-2%3AGB&type=revision&diff=696177228&oldid=695880839
I just added a new row using the option "Insert above", but looks like when i actually look at the Wiki code, it is not produced as expected. -- Siddhant ( talk) 12:20, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
When we click on "Review your changes", we're presented with a green highlighted button "Save page" at the top right even if we didn't write an edit summary. The "Return to save form" button should at least be put at the left of the "Save page" button", instead of being hidden at the very bottom of the page.
The RedBurn ( ϕ) 11:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
As a VE user, what I am supposed to do with a disambiguation page like Shandon? I went there to add a new entry Shandon, Rockhampton which needed an Australia heading added. When I looked at the other country headings, e.g. Republic of Ireland, they appeared as Paragraph format but without any bold formatting (as far as the VE was admitting), yet were visibly bold. That is they were different to the word "Shandon" in the first line which was Paragraph/Bold (said VE). So I created the heading Australia by using Paragraph/bold so it looked consistent with the other headings. I experimented with using Subheading1 but, although bold, the font is larger than the other headings. But Subheading2 does look about right. I think a VE user is likely to be somewhat confused by this.
But of course as a long-time source editor user, I guessed the other headings were done using ";" (which I confirmed after saving my VE edit with a quick peek in the source editor).
So, I think disambiguation pages are soon going to become enormous messes as more VE users edit them using manually bolding or some type of Subheading format. And fixing these will be seen as "creating more work for the community". (I guess the day will come when VE users are seen as part of the community and not some external agents of evil, but that day doesn't seem to have dawned).
I know someone will point out that the use of ";" in this way is evil, but can we skip that conversations in favour of recognising it's a reality. There's lots of them and they are widely used on disambiguation pages in particular, where people seem to be resistant to the visually heavyweight presentation of using ==Whatever== to create sections within lists.
Could we present ;Whatever to the VE user as a new para format "List header/Term" in the drop-down with Paragraph/etc? So that way they can see them and create them consistent with the rest of the disambiguation page (or wherever they are encountering them). I don't know if this is feasible but maybe only offer this format option if it's actually in use in the article (that is, don't offer it if the article isn't using it to discourage the proliferation of even more evil semicolons). Kerry ( talk) 20:56, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
As someone who operates in the article space which tends to start every article with
{{use Australian English}} {{use dmy dates}}
it is really annoying when Citoid produces non-dmy dates in such articles. Could Citoid be made a little smarter to detect the presence of the {{use dmy dates}} in the article and provide DMY dates please. Again, it's the kind of thing that will just create conflict between the VE users and the rest of the Australian community ("messing up articles with VE").
In the source editor, I don't have a problem if some tool inserts non-DMY dates because I have the gadget installed to allow me to convert "all dates to DMY" but that gadget does not show itself in the VE. So when I use Citoid, I have to switch into the source editor, and then click "all dates to DMY" to fix the Citoid. Or else allow the DMY-fixing gadget to work with VE.
As someone who is trying to make VE my default, I find myself constantly having to switch to the source editor to fix things I just cannot do (or cannot easily do) in VE. Kerry ( talk) 21:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
On this test template (Template:Infobox country/Sandbox 1),
I am unable to translate the template row labels, such as:
Flag
Seal
Anthem
Status
Capital
Largest Village
Official languages
Ethnice groups
Denonym
Sovereign State
Government
Legislature
Area
Population
GDP
HDI
Currency
Time zone
Calling Code
ISO 3166 Code
Interent TLD
Website
I am trying to get those row labels translated into another language for use on another Wikipedia language edition.
Could you show me how this could be done using Visual Editor? That would save me a lot of time instead of drilling down and manually editing the source code. Thanks. -- Philip J ( talk) 21:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
In the references part of the article, somebody wrote down "slob on my knob". I'm not sure that that is appropriate or related to the article. I'm not sure how to delete that part so I was wondering if you could.
Random15679 ( talk) 20:51, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
By the way my last comment was on the article Law of April 6, 1830.
Random15679 ( talk) 20:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please see the VE-related thread on this talk page: Talk:Albert_Rees (It was posted to this page per the editor's policies.) Apparently, VE extracts ASINs automatically from Amazon pages. This is normally a desirable feature, but apparently when a valid ISBN also exists on en.wikipedia only the ISBN should be reported, whereas fr.wikipedia prefers both. I refer you to the page: Talk:Albert_Rees-- Dk3298371 ( talk) 06:50, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
See this edit, where whole sections have been put into a single line by VE (including the titles of several sections). Also, look at the mess done on the categories. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:10, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
In this edit, I added the last body paragraph in Westwood House by a copy-and-paste from a paragraph from Westwood, Queensland (both were opened in the VE) which carried over two citations. I then fiddled a bit with the wording so it flowed better in the context of the Westwood House article (but this did not affect the citations in any way). I saved Westwood House and was surprised to see that the citations I had added to the article (which were the last citations in the body of the article) were numbered [1] and [2] while the remaining citations (all earlier in the article) were numbered [3], [4] etc. I opened the Westwood House article again in the VE and saw the citations numbered [1], [2], ... through the article and then at my new final paragraph [1] and [2] were repeated. (Note there was no relationship between my two citations and any other citation in the article -- no re-use etc). I went back to article mode and this time the citatons seemed to be numbered normally [1] [2] etc through the article as you would expect. But when I opened it again in the VE, the numbering was back to [3] [4] .... [1] [2]. I am not sure if my initial article view after the edit is reproducible (as now it shows the numbering correctly) but my opening of the article in VE consistently numbers the references wrongly. I am aware we have a problem with numbering citations when some of them appear in infoboxes etc and this article does have one citation in a photo caption (nothing to do with my edits), but the citation-in-a-box problem just impacts the incrementing of the citation numbers. I've never seen it start reusing the citation numbers. When I looked in the source editor, I notice that the first of my copy-and-paste citations has name=":0" and I am wondering if somehow this is the culprit? Kerry ( talk) 00:25, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
I stumbled onto this real "new user with VE" example via my watchlist. The backstory (via the Teahouse) is that this is an article about her grandfather John Richardson Wigham and the photo provided is of someone else. She has uploaded a real photo of him to Commons and is now trying to replace the photo in the infobox. She would appear to have copied the markup offered by Commons to "Use on a Wiki" (which would be perfectly correct if she was a source editor user). But watch what happens as a VE user.
Step through the story starting with [19] with this first edit where she pastes in the markup. But that doesn't work, so she removes it. Then she realises she's got to do something to the infobox, so she would appear to have managed to replace the infobox with the markup. Then she manages to somehow manglethe EngvarB template into her image markup. She realises she has deleted the infobox and tries to reconstruct it (without knowing about the infobox template). The sequence of events is then interrupted by her photo being removed from Commons for not having the right permissions. Fortunately the ensuing dialogue at the Teahouse results in someone else cleaning up the mess.
It's a good example of the use case "new user wants to put a photo in an article" and/or "new user wants to put a photo in an infobox" and how the VE just can't do it for them. This user never discovered "Insert media" and even if she did, she could not have used it on an infobox. Kerry ( talk) 22:59, 28 December 2015 (UTC)