Hi folks,
we just changed the enwiki VisualEditor configuration in a couple
important ways:
- "Edit source" is now consistently labeled as such, across namespaces;
- The section edit link animation was disabled;
- VisualEditor links are secondary, rather than primary;
- VisualEditor links have a "beta" indicator next to them;
- When VisualEditor is first invoked, it shows a message explaining
its beta status.
These changes are explained in more detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/August_2013_update
We're discussing these changes on enwiki with the community, and are
not intending to immediately deploy them to other wikis that have
VisualEditor enabled, to allow some time for the dust to settle and
potentially make further refinements if needed.
However, we welcome feedback from other communities as well -- if
these changes work well in practice, we'll likely want to translate
the new messages and get them deployed to all wikis that have the
VisualEditor beta enabled, unless folks have significant concern about
them.
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation