[Wikimedia-l] Feedback for the Wikimedia Foundation

[Jane Darnell]

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 at gmail.com>:
> On 26 July 2013 03:12, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
> <everton.alvarenga at 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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