On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe there's a comparison to be made, but there's not really a simple way to disable VE in MediaWiki other than by having a preference.
I suppose the closest comparison to the Firefox situation would be if the preference still functioned but was not shown on Special:Preferences. Power users could still set the preference via the API, which would be more or less the equivalent of using about:config in Firefox.