https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50929
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Bug ID: 50929
Summary: User preference to disable VisualEditor
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MediaWiki integration
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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It's strange that I can't find a bug for this. Lots of user on en.wiki
complained loudly about this [1], but nobody succeded to write a bug report for
it? Well, here it is:
Please provide an option in user preferences to turn VE off. Some users just
don't like it and don't want to have an extra tab which they don't use anyway.
The gadget isn't perfect, as the tab might appear for short time before it is
removed again, and has to updated when VE integration changes. The only reason
I found for why there is no such option is this:
"It was planned, but the code turned out to be seriously buggy at the last
minute. Getting it really, truly off (rather than just covered up) is more
complicated than expected." Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:32, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Now with the minimized amount of code that is loaded at startup, it is
acceptable to load the code, but just not to execute it. Adding
if ( !mw.user.options.get( 'visualeditor-enable' ) ) {
return;
}
near to the end of modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.init.js
should be all that's really needed.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vpt#.22Opt_out.22_of_VE_needed_under_preferences
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