Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Archive/UX VisualEditor on Wikisource

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UX VisualEditor on Wikisource

NoN Outside the scope of Community Tech

  • Problem: visual editor came to wikisource but has not shown much promise. the menus require much searching, and scrolling down, memorizing keys, or customizing CSS.
    veterans go back to wikitext, and newbies do not know how to navigate
  • Who would benefit: new editors to wikisource
  • Proposed solution: do a thorough UX design on default menu layout
  • More comments: "visual editor is broken on wikisource" was a broad consensus expressed at wikimania [1] and previous wishlist [2]
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Slowking4 (talk) 19:07, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • There is also problem with VE inside <poem></poem> - VE thinks that text is parameter of {{poem}}. The same situation is with some formatting templates (one in the beginning with <div class=foo> and second with </div> on the end of text. T45120 JAn Dudík (talk) 21:03, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    IMHO Visual editor is almost useless into wikisource; a specific wikisource editing interface should be built by scratch, under strict supervision by a group of very active wikisource editors. --Alex brollo (talk) 07:34, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unfortunately, after much discussion, we believe our small team is not capable of taking on a VE refresh for Wikisource. I think one major improvement would be to have a way to add buttons for certain templates and tags, such that you as a community could customize it. For instance editing existing poems seems to work fine (in my testing), but there's apparently no way to add a poem. Though, you could make Template:Poem as a wrapper, and you'd at least be able to make use of it in VE.

    Overall, there seems to be a lot of issues with VE on Wikisource. To fix these we will need the expertise of the Editing team, so we will make sure they are aware of this and that the demand for a more functional VE is high. Thanks for taking the time to create this proposal, and apologies we can't take it on. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 02:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]