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To give your thoughts or feedback about VisualEditor, visit the [[Extension:VisualEditor/Community Discussion|Community Discussion]] page.
 
To give your thoughts or feedback about VisualEditor, visit the [[Extension:VisualEditor/Community Discussion|Community Discussion]] page.
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==How to Enable Visual Editor==
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#Navigate to your [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]]
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#Select the "Editing" Tab
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#In the "Editor" section, check "Enable VisualEditor'
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Once enabled, the Edit button will trigger VisualEditor. You can still use the traditional editor by clicking the "Edit Source" button on any page.
   
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==

Revision as of 20:19, 3 June 2015

VisualEditor is a new, "visual" way of editing Gamepedia that allows people to contribute without having to learn wikimarkup. This rich-text editor was made available as an opt-in release on all Gamepedia wikis in June, 2015.

To learn more about using VisualEditor, please read the guide to VisualEditor and the list of common keyboard shortcuts.

To give your thoughts or feedback about VisualEditor, visit the Community Discussion page.

How to Enable Visual Editor

  1. Navigate to your Preferences
  2. Select the "Editing" Tab
  3. In the "Editor" section, check "Enable VisualEditor'

Once enabled, the Edit button will trigger VisualEditor. You can still use the traditional editor by clicking the "Edit Source" button on any page.

Resources

Limitations

Current known limitations include:

  • Slower – Loading longer pages into VisualEditor generally takes more time than the old wikitext editor, although this delay has been reduced significantly.
  • Not available in talk or discussion namespaces – On Gamepedia, VisualEditor is only enabled in the Main namespace. On pages other than those in the namespaces mentioned, the "Edit" button for VisualEditor is not available.
  • Cannot edit a single section – VisualEditor loads and submits only entire pages. In VisualEditor's model, editing sections would be paradoxically slower than editing the whole page. Section editing does not reduce edit conflicts.
  • Template parameters are wikitext, not rich edited – VisualEditor lets you edit the parameters of template transclusions, but only as "wikitext" (so "[[Foo]]" not "Foo").
  • Nested templates aren't very easy (e.g. {{Template1|{{Template2}}}}) – VisualEditor lets you edit template transclusions which themselves use templates ("nested" templates).
  • Limited browser support – VisualEditor works only in relatively modern (last three years) versions of Chrome/Chromium, Firefox/Iceweasel, Internet Explorer 10 or higher, Safari, Opera, Midori, Qupzilla, SeaMonkey and WebPositive (approximately 93% of all users). VisualEditor does not yet work with Internet Explorer 9, and will never work with Internet Explorer 8 or older.
  • "Weird" templates – struggles with templates that pass a bit of incomplete code, with markup, to another template or table, such as ones that fill in multiple parameters of a table by passing, for example, param1|param2 - this is a difficult problem to code around, but usually unnecessary.
  • Incomplete editing functionality – The content of some "complex" formatting, including definition lists and multi-column layouts, will display and can be edited, but editors using VisualEditor cannot modify certain details, and table editing on mobile doesn't work properly. Adding features in this area is one of the developers' priorities.

Because of these limitations and the many remaining bugs in VisualEditor, the developers recommend that VisualEditor users click "Review your changes" before saving a page.