VisualEditor

“ It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar) . The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. ”

“ And the community decided way back then to let the push-rollout take place without the option for users to turn it off. The only thing we can do is troubleshoot the problem with an aim to reslove it somehow. For starters, can you breifly describe your OS & browser w/ versions and any wiki specific settings you've enabled. You also mentioned a 'visual editor default' - I don't think you mean the VisualEditor because thats still beta around here so can you expand on exactly what's happening and a specific page that won't let you switch to a desired Dynamic Layout. ”

“ Just because you can manage to pull something into existence around here doesn't really mean that its truly supported. If you don't like WikiEditor (or its eventual replacement, VisualEditor) then at least dump this toolbar nonsense and move those characters and inserts to CharInsert already. All you need to do is add something like this...
// CharInsert specific window.charinsertDontMove = false; window.editToolsRecall = true; window.charinsertCustom = { User: ' Æ æ Œ œ à á â ä è é ê ë î ï ñ ô ö û ü — ␥‽ #REDIRECT. [\ [+] ] ' }; if (window.updateEditTools) window.updateEditTools () ; .... ”

“ When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. Changes this week
On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. ”

“ Slightly OT, the hard work of adapting the visual editor to Wikisource is mainly led by volunteers User:Coren and User:Tpt who would certainly benefit from direct feedback about what's working and what you'd like to see improved. Thanks! As a reminder—this wiki features a Single Edit Tab system; if you're not sure you know or remember how that works, you can read the guide (which details, among other things, how to switch between editors from the buttons on the toolbar) ; you can change your editing settings at any time, by the way. ”

“ I also want to underline that the dialog does not change in any way the current site-wide configuration of the visual editor. Nothing changes permanently for users who chose to hide the visual editor in their Preferences or for those who don't use it anyway, or for wikis where it's still a Beta Feature, or for wikis where certain groups of users don't get the visual editor tab, etc. There is a slight chance that you see a few more questions than usual about the visual editor. Please refer people to the documentation or to the feedback page, and feel free to ping me if you have questions too! ”

“ Before text wrapping, the OCR’ed text line is identical in length to the original, and thus the row and column of a needed change is easily located. Wrapped text lines make finding and editing much more difficult.
When I proofread an article, (I am using Windows XP and Firefox 4.01 with their spell check turned on, and the legacy Wikisource editor with user defined .js Vector toolbar) as follows:
Insert the header by a macro of the custom toolbar. Check the page for footer and if exists replace the with the {{smallrefs}} which is available at the bottom of the editing screen. ”

“ Kathleen.wright5 Low Mid Edit forms Users with advanced technical skills (for practical work) and less expert ones (for advice) may co-operate to create edit forms for the Main and the Author namespaces in order to make the editing interface more user-friendly. An edit form is already active in the Index namespace; try to edit an author page at the Italian Wikisource, too. Low High Category:Works with no license template These need sorting through and researching on the various copyright databases. In some cases the works are extracts and the larger work needs to be found. ”

“ If you find other editors ignore the Index discussion page, ask them to pay attention to it. If someone is intentionally ignoring the Index discussion page, revert their edits. But I think most things can be sorted out without reverting disruptive edits. Talk. By the way, when I view most sidenotes, they look like crap in Page space, but fine in Mainspace. This might be my browser, my screen size, my screen resolution, my side-by-side horizontal editing preference in Wikisource... or whatever. Who knows? The technology is complex. ”

“ We may or may not need to reflect as we are faced with 1) different editions (plus next/prev; disambiguate at level) , 2) different methods within edition (plus next/prev; disambiguate) , 3) different issues of the method (plus next/prev; disambiguate at level) . My initial thoughts are that we look to have version pages for edition/method/issue, and maybe they contain the prev/next, and we just drop down to the specific components, with upward navigation. Otherwise maybe we need to customise the header template if we wnat a more complex navigation. ”

“ How I prepare a text now.
I was never quite so bad on the proofing end of things. As an editor, I use Brief in DOS and Crisp (a Brief clone) on Windows. (I mostly use vi on *nix, but I do very little-to-no PG work on *nix apart from an occasional scripting thing that I can do in one line of Perl, but would be annoying on MS) .
Now, I'm all for tolerance and equality and respect for the faiths of other people, :-) but I gotta say that for someone who has used a powerful editor, editing with Word or any standard Windows editor is like scratching your nose with a rake. ”

“ It fills up the revision history for the local template with every single edit on the remote project. This is bad enough when you mix local and remote edits, but it gets even worse when you import from multiple projects. Some of our templates now have several hundred apparent edits, that are a mix of edits made on Commons, on English Wikipedia, and local edits. It is impossible to disentangle them and understand the actual history of the code. In every normal circumstance you should leave this option unchecked. ”