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Bug 55900 - VisualEditor: veaction=edit should invoke VE irrespective of user prefs
VisualEditor: veaction=edit should invoke VE irrespective of user prefs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
MediaWiki integration (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement
: VE-deploy-2013-12-05
Assigned To: James Forrester
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-10-18 21:50 UTC by John Mark Vandenberg
Modified: 2014-01-06 01:53 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description John Mark Vandenberg 2013-10-18 21:50:20 UTC
On English Wikipedia, the VE is now not offered for anons & people who have not enabled a user pref.

However if the user loads a URL that invokes VE (i.e. includes ?veaction=edit), it would be nice if VE loaded irrespective of user preferences.  If ?veaction=edit in the URL isnt explicit enough to bypass some checks, ?veaction=edit&debug=true should just do it.

That would streamline testing in many browsers, as we wouldnt need to log in on each browser - which is a bugger because logging into a second browser causes the first browser to be logged out.(bug 49890)
Comment 1 John Mark Vandenberg 2013-10-18 22:01:52 UTC
p.s. anon VE testing via URL params used to work.
Comment 2 James Forrester 2013-10-18 22:26:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> On English Wikipedia, the VE is now not offered for anons & people who have
> not enabled a user pref.

Indeed.

> However if the user loads a URL that invokes VE (i.e. includes
> ?veaction=edit), it would be nice if VE loaded irrespective of user
> preferences. If ?veaction=edit in the URL isnt explicit enough to bypass some
> checks, ?veaction=edit&debug=true should just do it.

Possibly, but I feel that this conflicts with the expressed will of the community (to prevent anonymous users from being able to use VisualEditor).

> That would streamline testing in many browsers, as we wouldnt need to log in
> on each browser - which is a bugger because logging into a second browser
> causes the first browser to be logged out.(bug 49890)

Understood the use-case (I have the issue too).

(In reply to comment #1)
> p.s. anon VE testing via URL params used to work.

Because it was enabled for all anons; when the configuration was changed, this feature was disabled. It is not a regression. Fixing.
Comment 3 Roan Kattouw 2013-10-18 22:45:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> It is not a regression. Fixing.
Removing the code-update-regression keyword; it sounds like you intended to do that.
Comment 4 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-11-26 09:53:34 UTC
Change 97701 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Make veaction=edit work regardless of user preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97701
Comment 5 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-12-02 23:43:54 UTC
Change 97701 merged by jenkins-bot:
Make veaction=edit work regardless of user preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97701

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