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Second attempt to edit my post here.

Hi

While testing VE edit on hi (hindi) wikipedia on random pages I tried and failed to post a test feedback showing error as unknown API error.

While I succeded to post test feedback from mr and en wiki, the same could not be done from hi wikipedia.

Unfortunately strange I failed to edit this feed back also and I am typing this whole again ( Idont know my fault or system fails). Any way this attempt I will copy and save this message some where else.

Anyway please look into hi wikipedia VE feedback form issue.

Regards

सदस्य प्रतिनीधी: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0

URL: https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8.%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82.%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%95?veaction=edit

Simply testing

Thank you. Mahitgar (talk) 08:26, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

I think I know what happened there - I believe we simply need to enable delivery of feedback from hi.wp to mediawiki.org. I'll ask James to fix that later. Thanks for reporting this. Elitre (WMF) (talk) 09:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

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A modest change which will make reference improvement easier

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I have been trying to improve references in some articles. I stumbled upon Refill, which very nicely improves bare urls in a single step.

However, one very common practice is for an editor to include a bare url for a Google Books reference, then add a page number. I'm sure you know what I mean but see references # 2,5,6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14  and others in

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mushika_Kingdom&oldid=704385705

Refill won't fix this reference (as an aside, someone might design a way to do that, although it may be tricky as various formats for page number exist, e.g. p 181, p.181, pg 181 etc). I am also aware that clicking edit, then clicking on the reference and clicking Convert often works, but it will not if the page number has been appended.

I am happy to do it semi-manually (Edit, remove the page number, Convert, then manually replace the page number), but that process takes a couple more steps than it needs to. After doing convert, you can click on Edit, but it displays only the existing fields. To add a page number, you have go down to "Add more information" then click on "Show n more fields" then page down or type "Page" into the field name, then add the page number.

I suggest that the existence of a page number is so ubiquitous that it ought to be included as one of the default fields displayed, even if it is empty. Then the process will be much faster. Remove page number, click edit, add the number to the displayed field and apply changes. (If you agree, you should include both "Page" and "Page(s) cited", to cover the common situation when the reference is to a range or set of pages.)

This change seems like it would be easy on your end, and would make the improvement of references much faster. Sphilbrick (talk) 17:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Diplaying the |pages= filed would require phab:T97482 to be resolved. I don't know what the team's thinking about that task is (perhaps it's harder than it looks?), but I'd certainly like to see it done. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

I believe I left a comment at phabricator, but I agree resolving that request would address my issue. Sphilbrick (talk) 13:16, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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Syntax Highlighting not appearing correctly in when editing

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I had anticipated that with VisualEditor and syntaxhighlight_geshi the editor would display code block text within the code block in the editor, instead I am seeing <syntaxhighlight> </syntaxhighligh> tags and plain text. Which is quite difficult to accurately edit. If there is a configuration change required? FrostyForrester (talk) 09:57, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

What version are you using ? This was added relatively recently, so it might not yet be available unless you use unreleased versions of several of the components. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 12:22, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Visual Editor: 0.1.0 (34a21d8)

SyntaxHighlight 2.0

MediaWiki 1.26.2 FrostyForrester (talk) 12:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, I hold my hands up. It was an issue with how I had parsoid configured. Basically, although it was running it wasn't being loaded correctly by the VisualEditor or Wiki, so it was breaking everything. It looks clean and tidy now! FrostyForrester (talk) 22:16, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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Images not displaying in Editor

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When a topic has been created with an embedded image in its body, then is saved and subsequently the page edited again the image appears as a 'broken image' frame.

If I Copy Image Address 'URL' appears as 'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==' as an example.

However if I change the image to the same image again the URL doesn't change but the image displays as expected within the editor.

I am sure this is likely a configuration issue but some help in resolving this would be appreciated. FrostyForrester (talk) 10:04, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, I hold my hands up. It was an issue with how I had parsoid configured. Basically, although it was running it wasn't being loaded correctly by the VisualEditor or Wiki, so it was breaking everything. It looks clean and tidy now! FrostyForrester (talk) 22:16, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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Prevent link widget from opening right away

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On pages which start with a hyperlink, the link editing widget opens automatically when VE starts up. This is quite annoying, as 99% of the time you want to edit the text of the page, and not the hyperlink. Is there a way to disable this, other than adding whitespace to the start of the page before the link? Turnstep (talk) 16:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

I think there is a task I filed about this behavior. However, I vaguely recall that it got relabelled in "dev jargon" afterwards, so I'm unable to tell you what it is ATM. I'll ask. Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:33, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

While I still haven't been able to locate the task, we seem to recall the problem has been fixed on WMF wikis a long ago. Have you met it elsewhere perhaps? Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:33, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

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Issue changing the list type at indentation level 3 and higher.

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I am new with VisualEditor and I am trying to re-produce an example of a list that mixes bullet list items with numbered list items (on different indentations). The example shown on the test page shows the following list:

These are the planets in this solar system:
* Four terrestrial planets
*# Mercury
*# Venus
*# Earth
*#* One satellite, called the Moon
*# Mars

I tried to reproduce this list in the VisualEditor as follows:

1. Select menu item "Bullet list" and type "Four Terrestrial planets"
2. Add a second list item (press enter) and indent (press tab) list item to level 2.
3. Select menu item "Numbered list" and add the four planet names as separate list items
4. Go to the list item "Earth" and create a new list item between "Earth" and "Mars" (press Enter after text "Earth").
5. Indent (press tab) list item to level 3.
6. Change the list type at level 3 to bullet by pressing menu item "Bullet List".

At step 6, pressing the menu item "Bullet List" removes the list at that line. I expected the behaviour to change the list type to bullet and not remove the list. Is this the expected behaviour or a bug?

Cheers! Jmccausl (talk) 21:52, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

So here's how I did it today:

1. Type the whole list first. Everything is a simple, single-level bulleted list.
2. Indent stuff to the level that you want. It's all still bullets.
3. Click on the middle level (the one that ought to be numbers) and switch that item to numbers.

Does that work for you? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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