[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor

[Richard Nevell]

I firmly agree with that, taking a detour to preferences when training new
editors isn't my preferred method.

Richard


On 15 October 2013 12:47, Ziko van Dijk <vandijk at wmnederland.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that for beginners things must be as simple and clear as
> possible. Make them manipulate the preferences at the beginning of the
> session is already complicated and a waste of time. Don't forget that
> beginners already have to learn so many things quickly, so the more
> you can reduce, the better.
> Actually I'd prefer to have a model wiki that looks like Wikipedia but
> is best suited to use in trainings.
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
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> 2013/10/15 Charles Andrès <charles.andres.wmch at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks, but in FR.Wikipedia.org you only have the opt-out option
> (disable visual editor) :-(
> >
> > Charles
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> > Le 15 oct. 2013 à 10:10, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459 at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> >> Hello Charles,
> >>
> >> I don't think there is a way to for this in the registration process.
> >>
> >> To enable or disable Visual Editor. Login
> >>
> >> 1. Go to ---> Preferences --> Click Editing tab.
> >> 2. At the bottom of Editing page, Check or uncheck the box beside
> Enable VisualEditor (only in the main and user namespaces)
> >>
> >>
> >> OR
> >>
> >> Follow this link
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
> >> Then repeat step 2 above.
> >>
> >> Hope it helps.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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> >> Enock S. Nyamador.
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> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Charles Andres <
> charles.andres.wmch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we
> have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
> activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
> >>
> >> Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a
> specific user?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Charles
> >>
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