I have tried and failed to use the Visual Editor several times in the past few weeks, and as with all new technologies, I consider myself a "follower" rather than a "leader", so I was very interested to look up the Dutch feedback that Romaine was reporting. One of the comments was that it was impossible to create a simple blue link with the VE, since the VE throws <nowiki> around any attempt to do this. Since that is one of the most basic parts of wikimarkup that anyone will use, I decided to investigate, since that was my problem too.
I am happy to report that I just discovered what the problem is. I had turned off the "Show edit toolbar" option in my preferences (probably over a year ago), so I wasn't seeing the top part of the VE edit toolbar, which includes the hyperlink icon, among other things. I was only seeing the other, second, line of the VE toolbar icons for including media, reference, references list, and transclusion.
I expect that many other experienced Wikipedians have the same problem. This should help solve a lot of the "ghost edits".
2013/7/26, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 26 July 2013 03:12, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvarenga@okfn.org wrote:
Maybe a new community (less conservative?) to build a good encyclopedia can come up if a new platformn be invented?
Hence "power users" as a snarl word.
After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers’ Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?
- d.
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