Last modified: 2014-09-23 22:06:36 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Open page containing the {{good article}} (or similar) template in VisualEditor, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=622810787 (which contains only that template) 2. Click the good article icon/template 3. VisualEditor exits, and you are reading the Wikipedia:Good article page (the same one that you would be reading if you clicked that icon in 'read' mode). Expected behavior: 1. Open page containing {{good article}} in VisualEditor 2. Click the good article icon/template 3. Edit the template just like any other. It's possible that this can only be reproduced on Windows, because on my Mac, when I open the page, the template isn't even visible.
Which browsers are you using ?
It was reported on Firefox 31 on Windows 7, using Monobook. There's a screenshot at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VE_with_GA_icon.png
Caused by "z-index: 10;" in [[w:en:MediaWiki:Monobook.css]].
While this could possibly be fixed on-wiki for this particular case, we should prevent people from accidentally or intentionally breaking this in VE, too.
Setting topicons with CSS like this is a horrible hack. Imagine if we did the same with category links! We should create a simple extension to add topicons to a page, so that they are rendered in the correct place in the HTML (i.e. not the article body). Parsoid can then provide them to VE as metadata and we can handle them accordingly. I've discussed this with Trevor and Roan and we think it's a fairly simple project to take on.
Change 161957 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński: Prevent page elements from displaying on top of highlights https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/161957
Ed, that's bug 23796, with the related bug 51420 in VE.
Change 161957 merged by jenkins-bot: Prevent page elements from displaying on top of highlights https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/161957
