Last modified: 2014-01-06 01:53:56 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)
p.s. anon VE testing via URL params used to work.
(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.
(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.
Change 97701 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Make veaction=edit work regardless of user preference https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97701
Change 97701 merged by jenkins-bot: Make veaction=edit work regardless of user preference https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97701