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| | ''This version of the page has not been updated since 2017 '''[[Tardis:Forking announcement|It is no longer applicable]]''', since it describes a version of the [[Help:Visual editor|visual editor]] not available on the independent Tardis.'' |
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| | ''See also: [[Help:2013 archive/VisualEditor (Beta Release)]]''<br /> |
| | ''Latest version: [[Help:Visual editor]] (2024)'' |
| | '''''Retained for archival purposes only.'''''<hr />{{sm|{{#replace:{{User:SOTO/sig}}|<br>|}} ''12:06, 5 December 2024 (UTC)''}} |
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| As part of the ongoing [[Help:Darwin|Darwin evolution]], this wiki introduced the '''beta version of the VisualEditor''' (or VE) on 20 November 2013. Note the word '''''beta'''''. That means we are helping to test an '''imperfect''' piece of software. It '''will for a while''' and '''does currently''' have problems. Our task is to help Wikia spot those problems and correct them. Instructions on how to actually ''use'' the editor [[#Using VisualEditor|are further down the page]], but first a few notes about Tardis' involvement in the project.
| | This wiki introduced the '''beta version of the VisualEditor''' (or VE) on 20 November 2013. We were one of the first communities to help test this editing pane. Its main intent was to help newer users make quick-and-easy edits -- such as correcting typos. The VE, however, does run into some problems when it discovers more complex editing situations here at Tardis. You are very much encouraged to try to learn how to use the [[Help:Source editor|source editor]], as you will definitely encounter situations where the VE is inequal to the task of editing certain pages here. |
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| == Why us? ==
| | Below is the standard Fandom help file on how to use it. |
| Well, we're doing it because our community is large enough for a meaningful test and because we've always dealt comparatively well with change. Most of the Tardis team understand — perhaps because of the shifting nature of ''Doctor Who'' itself — that change is inevitable. So we're likely to be a reasonable bunch of people to test it on.
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| We're also adopting it because [[user:CzechOut|our tech admin]] has had a face-to-face meeting with the VE team and believes that the underlying fundamentals are rock solid. This isn't anything ''remotely'' like the Visual Editor that this wiki voted outta here some time ago. This is something that really will — once its bugs are ironed out — help attract new editors. It offers the genuine promise of ''mostly'' WYSIWIG editing. If a person only wants to add a sentence or fix spelling — which studies show is all ''most'' users actually want to do — this new editor make that ''massively'' easier.
| | == External Fandom link == |
| | [[w:c:community:Help:VisualEditor|Help:VisualEditor]] (Community Central) |
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| Those of us who have been here for a while may have forgotten just how incredibly arcane the normal — or what Wikia calls "source mode" — editing is. But to the person used to editing on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest, [[T:MARK|wiki markup]] is initially ... arcane.
| | [[Category:Help archives|VisualEditor (2017)]] |
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| The hope of the VE is that it will allow people to make a lot more quick-fire edits — while still allowing the more experienced editor access to all the complexity of the wikitext "language".
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| == Why now? ==
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| Some might say that it was insane to enable such a massive change to editing on the eve of the Doctor's 50th anniversary and, indeed, the impending change of Doctors. But it's precisely ''because'' we're expecting such an in-rush of editors — indeed, it's already noticeably started — that we wanted to enable it right now.
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| New editors are our target with the VE, so there's no better time for this wiki to attract them than the last six weeks of 2013.
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| == How do I help? ==
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| Because we're beta testers, we should be giving our thoughts on things that work and things that don't. So when you find something you really like or dislike — or maybe that you just don't understand — pop on over to [[Thread:143084]] to give your thoughts.
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| The main thing you can do is to simply keep it enabled and ''try'' to use it.
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| == What if it doesn't work? ==
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| [[File:VEMoreMenu.png|thumb|right|In most cases, the easiest access to the "normal" or "source" editor is at the bottom of the "more" menu]]
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| The VE doesn't handle every single editing situation. Yet.
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| So if you ever get to a point where you can't understand how to make the editor work, there are a couple of options.
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| The thing to do in most cases is to click on "more" and then pull down to "source mode". That will present a window that works similarly to the edit window you're used to. Unfortunately, this version of "source mode" doesn't have auto-suggestion, so it may not be right for every situation — especially if you're not ''quite'' sure of the names of the articles you want to link to.
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| [[file:ClassicEditor.png|thumb|Sometimes, you might want to disable the VE for '''the entirety of the upcoming edit'''. Choose "classic editor".|left]]
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| If you need to get to ''actual'' source mode, simply go do your edit pull-down and choose "classic editor". That will dump you back in "normal" edit mode. (If you have to do this, though, ''please'' go to [[Thread:143084]] and tell us what you were trying to do and why you couldn't do it.)
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| Although it's possible to turn off the VE in your [[Special:Preferences]], '''we urge you not to'''. You can simply use VE in most situations, and then pull down to "classic editor" if you're doing something that's beyond the VE's current powers.
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| Note that the VE is not active in every [[namespace]]. ''Primarily'' it is available only in the "main" namespace (or namespace 0, for the technically minded amongst you). Your editing experience on the forums or in, say, the '''Theory''' namespace will for the moment be unchanged.
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