[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-08-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il changed:

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--- Comment #56 from Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il ---
(In reply to Tim Starling from comment #49)
  * Editing by section blocks users from editing other areas at the same time
  that the notice flaws in after they've entered editing, for very limited
  added-value.
 
 For large articles, I think the added value would be very large indeed.
 People don't want to wait tens of seconds to make a small correction, and
 it's likely that VE performance causes many edits to be abandoned.
 
 Perhaps there are other solutions for the performance issue, but it seems to
 me that this is a fairly obvious approach, especially for bandwidth
 reduction.

For what it's worth...

I did a non-scientific poll and asked the Hebrew Wikipedia community what are
the people's reasons to avoid VE. Precisely this suggestion came up several
times.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-06-29 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #55 from Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com ---
No, it definitely shouldn't be a preference – instead, it should be possible
for everyone to expand the editing area from the one section to the entire
article.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-06-28 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #53 from Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com ---
Re comment 52: I agree that show/hide would be nice for the uneditable
sections.

More importantly, if this behaviour is implemented, please make it a preference
option.  I often use edit beta on one section in order to fix a problem I see
in the section just above it; I'd hate to lose that capability.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-06-28 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #54 from Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com ---
Another thought on the preference: currently clicking on a section edit gives a
pre-filled edit summary including the section.  Whether this happens should
depend on the same preference.  If I have section-editing set to yes, I would
get the pre-filled edit summary and other sections hidden; if I have it set to
no, I would get no pre-filled edit summary, and I would see the whole article,
as happens now.  This would help avoid the (common) situation where the edit
summary is misleading when a section edit is clicked.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-06-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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WhatamIdoing wmf.whatamido...@yahoo.com changed:

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--- Comment #52 from WhatamIdoing wmf.whatamido...@yahoo.com ---
Mike Christie has a suggestion:  Edit the whole page, but only display the
chosen section.  

By this I don't think he means discard everything except the section, but
instead just to cover up the other parts.  We're already scrolling to the
chosen section, so this would add maybe a gray or white block over everything
above that (or perhaps collapse it), and ideally everything below it, too.  

This would help people who are using section editing to keep them focused on
their chosen tasks, rather than because of beliefs about performance or edit
conflicts.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-03-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org changed:

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   Priority|Highest |Low

--- Comment #51 from Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org ---
Comment 46 ignored comment 44, hence making the priority value reflect reality
again. If there are further good arguments to give this higher priority, feel
free to convince the *developers* to set a higher priority again.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-02-28 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed:

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-01-17 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed:

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2014-01-08 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com changed:

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-10-31 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed:

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-08-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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kipod fur.hew...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #50 from kipod fur.hew...@gmail.com ---
(In reply to comment #49)
 
 Yes, the existing feature prevents users from editing other sections on the
 page, which sucks. That could presumably be addressed in VE: a separate
 content-editable region could be created by each section edit click, to be
 saved in bulk.


i agree with Tim's comment wholeheartedly, except the last paragraph:
preventing the user from editing outside the section doesn't suck. it's a
great feature.

when editing a section, we have automatically generated edit summary with the
section name. for users that use wikitext editor, you pretty much know, when
you see the very common /* section name */ optional comment edit summary,
that the edit is indeed confined to the section whose name appears in the
comment.

but with VE, because of the wrong (IMHO) way bug 50872 was handled, a user can
press the sectionedit link of some section, then edit anywhere on the page,
and the summary will still show the section name of the click. this makes the
summary practically useless: when looking at the history, seeing a section name
in the summary tells me nothing - i don't care which button Joe pressed, i care
which content was changed, and the summary does not tell me that anymore.[1]


since the most urgent issue ATM for VE is unacceptable performance on longer
articles with slower machines, true section edit would be (as Tim notes) a very
very desirable feature. 

how about this: i think that the cases where a section is not balanced, in
terms of html tags (the case described in comment 2) is very rare. how about
falling back to full article edit in those rare cases? [2]
true, it means that those cases would be even slower, but i believe that those
are a negligible minority. the vast majority of the sections *are* balanced,
and will gain greatly (performance wise) from the ability to edit a single
section.


peace.

-

[1] this can be handled by undoing the solution for bug 50872, and solving bug
51903 instead (i.e., create the summary by analyzing the diff instead of the
button the user clicked), but the best thing, IMO, would be to support true
section edit for VE.


[2] this means: get the section content from the server, and if it does not
make sense, like the example in comment #2, get and edit the whole page.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-08-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org changed:

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--- Comment #49 from Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org ---
(In reply to comment #2)
 {|
 ! Foo !! Bar
 |-
 === Section 1 ===
 |-
 | Foo || bar
 === Section 2 ===
 |-
 | Foo || bar
 |}
 
 Coming up with a solution to this is would be a significant piece of
 engineering effort for marginal utility.

The section editing feature in the old parser works by excluding all sections
headings where the heading is not a child of the document root. The previous
section thus runs on past the excluded heading. This means that a section can
always be represented as a set of adjacent DOM subtrees. It seems to me that
the same solution could be implemented in VE. 

The definition of children of the document root would change somewhat, since
it is a different kind of DOM, so the number of excluded sections would be
larger, but it would still be a better solution than what we have now.

 * The reasons we brought in section-editing originally were two-fold - to
 skip
 past confusing wikitext in other areas to find the item you actually wanted
 to
 edit (not an issue in the context of VisualEditor), and to avoid edit
 conflicts
 using the page-based diffs at the time (not an issue for ~ 7 years since Tim
 re-wrote the diff tool).

Section editing has never had any special case to help with edit conflicts --
it was always dealt with using the generic three-way merge feature, which, for
the record, I did not write.

I think the main two reasons for implementing section editing were bandwidth
and avoiding the need to scroll. Erik's original post on the subject suggests
as much:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/3433

Note that it was implemented at a time when 56k modems were still common -- I
had one at the time, and I was certainly glad of the performance improvement.

 * Editing by section blocks users from editing other areas at the same time
 that the notice flaws in after they've entered editing, for very limited
 added-value.

For large articles, I think the added value would be very large indeed. People
don't want to wait tens of seconds to make a small correction, and it's likely
that VE performance causes many edits to be abandoned.

Perhaps there are other solutions for the performance issue, but it seems to me
that this is a fairly obvious approach, especially for bandwidth reduction.

Yes, the existing feature prevents users from editing other sections on the
page, which sucks. That could presumably be addressed in VE: a separate
content-editable region could be created by each section edit click, to be
saved in bulk.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-08-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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rupert.thur...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #46 from rupert.thur...@gmail.com ---
upgrading this to highest as this is the main reason for item 1 (slow
loading), item 2 (slow scrolling) and item 6 (no section editing) of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Known_problems. personally
i think this should be _the only_ immediate. why?

i tried it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho.
* 1 click and 15 secs to edit
* 1 click to make go a away a note (see attachment)
* 1 click to edit summary
* 1 click and 20 secs to review changes
* 1 click to return to save form
* 1 click and 40 secs to save
* 5* pg down to go to the section just edited

section edit with the text editor takes:
* 1 click and 2 secs to open
* 1 click and 2 secs to preview
* 1 pg-down to find the save button
* 1 click and 10 secs to save

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-08-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #48 from rupert.thur...@gmail.com ---
james, we tried your sections within a table example from above here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:VisualEditor/Known_problems#section_in_a_table
and we could not create something useful.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-08-01 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #45 from Toby tob...@gmail.com ---
This:
but I cannot justify spending donor funds to that extent
just turned into:
we're hoping to be able to undertake it some time towards the start/middle of
next calendar year

Which sure sounds like a priority change, so I'm not sure if my flag change was
psychic-magic or precipitative-magic, but either way, it now seems like the
correct priority status.  I've tried communicating other ways:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive_2013_07#Section_editing_will_never_be_implemented
(Any update from the dev discussion?) but got no answer, and the known
problems page still says not planned.

Anyway, it's good to hear that you are now planning to do this.  I'm sure it
will be worth it for low-bandwidth editors.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-31 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #44 from James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ---
(In reply to comment #43)
 I'm upgrading this to normal since it's listed at #4 on
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Known_problems and I'm
 not
 seeing any good case for low/lowest made here.

The priority field doesn't mean how much do people want it, it's how soon
are the developers likely to get to do it.

As I explained above, this will require a series of major changes in Parsoid
and a huge re-write of MediaWiki's skins system as we switch over to use
Parsoid's generated HTML for read pages, and is many (many) months away - we're
hoping to be able to undertake it some time towards the start/middle of next
calendar year.

Magically changing the status of the priority doesn't make this complex work
happen any quicker. There is no value in edit-warring over Bugzilla statuses,
so I'm going to leave this as is, but please don't make changes like this.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-30 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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Toby tob...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #43 from Toby tob...@gmail.com ---
I'm upgrading this to normal since it's listed at #4 on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Known_problems and I'm not
seeing any good case for low/lowest made here.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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David Gerard dger...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #39 from David Gerard dger...@gmail.com ---
I appreciate the VE is a hard problem  - but now you have an interface that
*lies* to the user. It claims visual section editing is possible, but the PM
for the VE has stated this functionality will not be funded.

So, is the interface lying to the user this bug, or should it be a separate
bug?

If lying to the user is considered a feature, what is it for?

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #40 from David Gerard dger...@gmail.com ---
Ah, I see the edit|edit source links on sections have turned back into just
edit links, which edit the wikitext. Thank you :-)

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #41 from David Gerard dger...@gmail.com ---
Ah, the disappearing double-links are Bug 50731.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #42 from Joe Decker joedec...@gmail.com ---
This is quite serious for slow connections.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #36 from Timeshifter zedlight...@gmail.com ---

 Solving what you're actually asking for (a form of VisualEditor/Parsoid that
 loaded and edited only one section at a time) would be a mammoth piece of
 work,
 albeit with some usefuless as you describe.
 
  James, please try regular editing on a slow connection if you haven't done
  this before, I'm pretty sure you'll end up editing the section source.
 
 I've edited Wikipedia (and other wikis) since 2001, including over
 heroically-terrible connexions through the years; I am very aware of the
 impact
 that our current site has on low-bandwidth users, even without VisualEditor,
 but I cannot justify spending donor funds to that extent when there are more
 pressing demands on the resources of the VisualEditor team.

My first thought is what were people thinking when they thought that using a
visual editor to edit a whole page at a time would not slow things down a lot
for many users? I am not a developer though, and hindsight is 20/20. 

Whatever it costs to make a visual editor that edits a section at at time would
be worth it. The WMF spends money on far less important things. I have been
saying this for years. 

I think millions of dollars more a year should be spent on developer salaries
just for the visual editor, and the coordination of vast armies of volunteer
developers to work on the visual editor. Another spending priority would be
developer money for cross-wiki watchlists.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #37 from Toby tob...@gmail.com ---
 the core developers of this are not intending to work on this issue any time 
 soon
That's exactly what befuddles me, and seems like a poor judgement.  If it's
anywhere near as big a task as you envisage, then I can't expect a volunteer to
take it up.  So I conclude that realistically it will never be done.

 having the entire document available, but just not editable
Ok, I agree that would be useless, possibly of negative value. You're right
that this is not what I'm asking for.

Parsoid that loaded and edited only one section at a time would be a mammoth 
piece of work
Obviously I'm not a mediawiki programmer, so I speak from ignorance here.  But
I don't understand why Parsoid can't just be given a shorter piece of wikitext
to parse, along with the section number it is starting at.  Since the old
editor is quite capable of serving up a correct section of the wikicode to the
user, I don't see why the same wikicode can't be given to Parsoid.  Please can
you get a third and fourth opinion on the feasibility of this.  Someone in your
team may be able to think of a way around the problems you envisage.

 I've edited Wikipedia (and other wikis) since 2001, including over 
 heroically-terrible connexions
So have you now also tried VisualEditor on those heroically-terrible
connections?  I'm willing to bet that you will feel the weight of this problem.

I cannot justify spending donor funds
The whole goal of VisualEditor is to improve accessibility and the editing
experience for lower-tech editors right?  Well, the sad truth is that low-tech
and globally underrepresented editor communities are strongly correlated with
low bandwidth access.  Section editing in a long article gives an order of
magnitude speed gain to those editors.  If you cannot do this for the target
audience, I fear that VisualEditor will not serve those who need it the most.

I really hope you will discuss this with more people before confining it to the
dustbin.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-03 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #38 from Toby tob...@gmail.com ---
Oh, and sorry to be pedantic, but in the original context, marginal utility
was not referring to a specific semi-solution as far as I can see:

 I don't seem to be able to section edit with VisualEditor.
 To edit a section, we would need to get its HTML from Parsoid - but a section
isn't guaranteed to be balanced HTML ...
 Coming up with a solution to this is would be a significant piece of
engineering effort for marginal utility.

Thank you for confirming now that you *do* see utility in stopping the waste of
bandwidth and slowing of load time.  Even if you think it is too difficult.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-02 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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David Gerard dger...@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #33 from David Gerard dger...@gmail.com ---
*** Bug 50592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-07-02 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #35 from James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ---
(In reply to comment #34)
 I can't believe that section editing is marked as a lowest priority
 enhancement!

Enhancement means the software doesn't do this, and isn't as-written meant
to do this; it's not a judgement on whether it should.

Lowest priority means the core developers of this are not intending to work
on this issue any time soon; bugs are always open to other developers coming
and working on them, which frequently happens.

Lowest is a very clear way of me marking the bug as something that can be
taken up without fear of duplication of work by a developer new to the code.
(This is known as avoiding cookie licking.)

 This is incredibly important to me.

I appreciate that it is important to some editors, but I have to balance all
requested features, changes and bugs with VisualEditor against one another, and
in my judgement this is, relatively, an edge case.

 The way it's currently set up wastes bandwidth and slows load time relative
 to the old editor. Both of these are important when making a quick-fix edit.

I agree with that; I recommend using the wikitext editor for exactly these use
cases by power users if they prefer.

 Hardly marginal utility. 

That specifically refers to finding a solution which you don't want.

A simpler solution - involving having the entire document available, but just
not editable except for the section the user asked for - is do-able, but in
that case, the benefits you're looking for (low bandwidth, fast loading time,
low load on local computers) would not be present; hence, marginal utility.

Solving what you're actually asking for (a form of VisualEditor/Parsoid that
loaded and edited only one section at a time) would be a mammoth piece of work,
albeit with some usefuless as you describe.

 James, please try regular editing on a slow connection if you haven't done
 this before, I'm pretty sure you'll end up editing the section source.

I've edited Wikipedia (and other wikis) since 2001, including over
heroically-terrible connexions through the years; I am very aware of the impact
that our current site has on low-bandwidth users, even without VisualEditor,
but I cannot justify spending donor funds to that extent when there are more
pressing demands on the resources of the VisualEditor team.

 I'm quite supportive of visual editor in general, but if this is not going
 to be fixed, I may have to turn back.

I'm sorry that that is the case, and hope that it does not come to that. Sorry
if my explanation here is insufficient.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-06-26 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429

--- Comment #32 from James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org ---
Just a note (for users not following the other bugs) that we have just merged a
change along the lines of bug 49666 - there will be both an edit and an edit
source link on every section, with the edit link taking the user into
VisualEditor, scrolled down to that section.

This enhancement request (to have VE appear just for a section within a wider
page) is not impossible, and we're keen to explore what impact it has, but very
hard, and blocked on Parsoid's HTML being used as the basis for MW's read
pages, so may take some time.

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-06-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
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--- Comment #31 from Gerrit Notification Bot gerritad...@wikimedia.org ---
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/69984 (Gerrit Change
I4b9c47fd65a700a81c880144247fec524edff7e5)

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[Bug 48429] VisualEditor: Support editing of sections inside a page

2013-06-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429

James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed:

   What|Removed |Added

   Priority|Low |Lowest
Summary|VisualEditor doesn't|VisualEditor: Support
   |support section editing |editing of sections inside
   ||a page

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