https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429
--- Comment #37 from Toby <[email protected]> --- > 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
