[Wikimedia-l] Let's have the courage to sit down and talk aboutVisualEditor

[Erik Moeller]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Peter Southwood
<peter.southwood at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> You could start by making the edit links permanently visible and clearly
> labeled.

Yeah, I've already requested this, since it seems like an easy win.
The mouseover behavior is really not a good solution - it was an
attempt to find a compromise between ensuring continued availability
of wikitext editing for sections while reducing clutter, but it
doesn't really serve that purpose well. It makes wikitext editing
secondary, which is unreasonable, adds screen flicker, and doesn't
translate to touch devices. We've been procrastinating for too long
finding the perfect solution for this problem, when really we'll
probably just need to take a marginal clutter hit right now. We'll fix
it.

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation