Can you file a bug about this bugzilla please? Where people that can actually work on it will see it?
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might have seen the banner across Wikipedia saying: > > > > VisualEditor is now enabled for all logged-in users. Learn more, help 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, 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_turn_off > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#VisualEditor_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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
