You might have seen the banner across Wikipedia saying:
VisualEditor is now enabled for all logged-in users. Learn more, help <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor> out and give feedback. If you bother to follow the link above, it says in about the 3rd paragraph: That said, if you really can't stand the extra tab, you can completely hide VisualEditor from your interface by enabling an experimental gadget: go to your preferences <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets> , scroll down to "Editing", tick the box labeled "Remove VisualEditor from the user interface", then scroll to the bottom and click "Save". You can reactivate it at any time by unticking the box. Having read that, I thought I'd take the Visual Editor for a spin (you enable it in Preferences > Editing). Having decided I didn't enjoy the Visual Editor, I decided to turn it off again. Lo and behold, I found there was no Remove VisualEditor option in my Preferences > Editing as promised. It seems like it is a one-way trip. Perhaps unsurprisingly people are complaining about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Visual_Editor_tur n_off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#VisualE ditor_going_live especially as it appears it was a deliberate decision to not let you turn it off in your preferences. However, it seems there is a way to turn it off. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets and disable it (first entry on the Editing section). It has been suggested that this method may not work for everyone (not sure why that is). However, it did work for me. The Visual Editor has disappeared. There is also Plan B. The Visual Editor will not run on Internet Explorer and it reverts to the "old" editor if you are using IE. So if all else fails, use Internet Explorer for your editing. Kerry
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