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<p>According to this blog they're rolling out the new visual editor soon. Right now it's available for each wiki to test out. Honestly I'm not crazy about this idea and I wish Wikia would leave it alone. However, at some point they're gonna make the change mandatory for all wikis so I figure we should at least try it for a week or so two so we can figure out what we do and don't like about it so we can at least suggest ways for them to improve it. So I propose enabling it here for a test run. What do you guys think?
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<p>Thought the visual editor was already the default editor unless you disable it in your preferences but sure, I'm up for testing this new one (though it doesn't look like it's much different unless I'm missing something o.o)
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Thought the visual editor was already the default editor unless you disable it in your preferences but sure, I'm up for testing this new one (though it doesn't look like it's much different unless I'm missing something o.o)</div> <p>It is. What they're doing is making a new version of it, a version that will eventually be required for all wikis, replacing the current version. Right now they're letting wikis test out the new one. I think part of it is so you can edit templates in visual. Honestly I'm not very fond of visual mode in any form and I only use it for minor spelling/grammar changes (since it's the default) because it puts a ton of wanted source code in if you try anything more. </p>
Thought the visual editor was already the default editor unless you disable it in your preferences but sure, I'm up for testing this new one (though it doesn't look like it's much different unless I'm missing something o.o)</div> <p>It is. What they're doing is making a new version of it, a version that will eventually be required for all wikis, replacing the current version. Right now they're letting wikis test out the new one. I think part of it is so you can edit templates in visual. Honestly I'm not very fond of visual mode in any form and I only use it for minor spelling/grammar changes (since it's the default) because it puts a ton of wanted source code in if you try anything more. </p>
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<div class="quote">3cooldog92 wrote:
<div class="quote">EpicFork wrote:
Thought the visual editor was already the default editor unless you disable it in your preferences but sure, I'm up for testing this new one (though it doesn't look like it's much different unless I'm missing something o.o)</div>It is. What they're doing is making a new version of it, a version that will eventually be required for all wikis, replacing the current version. Right now they're letting wikis test out the new one. I think part of it is so you can edit templates in visual. Honestly I'm not very fond of visual mode in any form and I only use it for minor spelling/grammar changes (since it's the default) because it puts a ton of wanted source code in if you try anything more. </div> <p>Ohhh, I guess that'd be good for users who don't understand source code yet since they can edit templates now. Anyone who can edit in the source editor can just disable it in their preferences anyway. </p>
<div class="quote">EpicFork wrote:
Thought the visual editor was already the default editor unless you disable it in your preferences but sure, I'm up for testing this new one (though it doesn't look like it's much different unless I'm missing something o.o)</div>It is. What they're doing is making a new version of it, a version that will eventually be required for all wikis, replacing the current version. Right now they're letting wikis test out the new one. I think part of it is so you can edit templates in visual. Honestly I'm not very fond of visual mode in any form and I only use it for minor spelling/grammar changes (since it's the default) because it puts a ton of wanted source code in if you try anything more. </div> <p>Ohhh, I guess that'd be good for users who don't understand source code yet since they can edit templates now. Anyone who can edit in the source editor can just disable it in their preferences anyway. </p>
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