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It is very slow.
Sorry to complain but the Visual Editor is very slow. It needs to be faster. Kamran Mackey (talk) 01:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
Review and save options
When seeking to review and save the work we are given two choices: "Something is wrong" and "Looks good to me". In fact "Something is wrong" actually means "Report a problem". Please re-title the button. Otherwise it leads the first time user to think they can go back to make a correction to their editing effort. Thanks.--S. Rich (talk) 02:26, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback; this screen (pre-save automatic diffing) is only here whilst we are unsure about the stability of the Parsoid service. In the longer-term (before it's the default editor and new users will likely see it), it will be removed from the mandatory workflow. This should remove the possibility for confusion. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Link autofill is a major problem
Linking isn't a major problem unless you want to pipe a link, in which case it's impossible. I randomly picked Lysgårdsbakken to make an edit (no saving changes). Chose the phrase "small hill" and pretended I wanted to pipe it to Summer Olympics. I choose the link button, and begin typing Summer Olympics; however, it autofills with "Spain" so I write "Spainummer olympics". If I attempt to delete letters, it autofills and replaces them. I figured out a workaround, which is to leave the word Spain and begin typing what you need after the first letter. I.e. Spain→Supain→Summerpain→Summer Olympicspain and then remove the remaining letters "pain". Ryan Vesey 19:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Images
These features should be implemented:
- Resize image
- Edit caption
- Move image
- Delete image Gamewizard71 (talk) 00:07, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Templates
Have templates turn into HTML when VE is activated. Gamewizard71 (talk) 00:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Insert
Implement these features:
- Insert Image
- Insert table
- Insert redirect Gamewizard71 (talk) 00:40, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations!
This is a great step forward for making Wikipedia more welcoming to new editors. I look forward to the day when the other tools and templates (cite, etc.) are integrated into this so I can use it more regularly. Thank you for prioritizing the user experience! Sarasays (talk) 19:21, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Fallback mechanism
Visualeditor looks very promising. For all the areas that it cannot edit and currently gives a large box with green stripes for when I move my mouse over them, could it give a textbox to edit the wikicode instead as a fallback mechanism? This way we would not have to switch between the visualeditor and normal editing all the time. --WS (talk) 08:57, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Broken Infobox rendering
This one looks particularly bad in Safari 6 (without having done any editing) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Thompson&oldid=535300833
—TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:06, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Content pushed down
Again Safari 6, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ou_Da&oldid=363485762 —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)