Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-27 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Newcomers with the VisualEditor were ~43% less likely to save a single edit than editors with the wikitext editor (x^2=279.4, p0.001),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-26 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Newcomers with the VisualEditor were ~43% less likely to save a single edit than editors with the wikitext editor (x^2=279.4, p0.001), meaning that Visual Editor presented nearly a 2:1 increase in editing difficulty.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Terry Chay
Tyler Romeo, On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I hope that as few users as possible will choose this way to degrade their experience and deprive the community of their input.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Risker, On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:22 -0400, Risker wrote: A note about the bugzilla: there's a reason why people are commenting there. They're being ignored in every other venue, and WP:CONEXCEPT (exceptions to project consensus)[1] has been invoked in regard to this. Therefore the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Whoa. Them's fighting words! :-D Yeah I'm sorry if that came off as aggressive, but this entire conversation has had the air of the VE team has decided this, but maybe they'll be gracious enough to compromise with you.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Jul 25, 2013 6:18 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Whoa. Them's fighting words! :-D Yeah I'm sorry if that came off as aggressive, but this entire conversation has had the air of the VE team has decided

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was it expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the WMF planning to do to better judge that in the future (because imo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Jul 25, 2013 8:02 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was it expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That's a de facto decision isn't it? Somebody figured flipping that switch without discussing it with the wikis first was a good idea. The question still stands: if they didn't expect this fall out, why not,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Jul 25, 2013 8:09 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: That's a de facto decision isn't it? Somebody figured flipping that switch without discussing it with the wikis first was a good idea. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I find that somewhat hard to believe, but if it is true, should that worry us? I'm not sure that we should be comfortable with changes like these not giving pause to our engineers. Well to be quite honest it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Risker
On 25 July 2013 14:20, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I find that somewhat hard to believe, but if it is true, should that worry us? I'm not sure that we should be comfortable with changes like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread James Forrester
On 25 July 2013 11:00, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was it expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread James Forrester
On 25 July 2013 10:11, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was it expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the WMF planning to do to better judge that in the future (because imo this was a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Derric Atzrott
I made the call about a year ago, and mentioned it in several of the dozens of mailing list and on-wiki posts made about the development of VisualEditor since then. Clearly my communication about it wasn't read, or wasn't understood, by the people who subsequently complained, but I wouldn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread James Forrester
On 25 July 2013 11:32, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: The preference didn't break anything. It had been active for months during the alpha testing. It was a conscious decision not to permit its continued use after the deployment on July 1, and the way that it was disabled was by hiding

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Trevor Parscal
I have avoided getting involved so I could stay focused on fixing bugs and making improvements to VisualEditor. This thread has served it's purpose; to surface various arguments about whether the preference to disable VisualEditor should be hidden or not. The conclusion has been reached. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I have avoided getting involved so I could stay focused on fixing bugs and making improvements to VisualEditor. This thread has served it's purpose; to surface various arguments about whether the preference to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Brian Wolff
I made the call about a year ago, and mentioned it in several of the dozens of mailing list and on-wiki posts made about the development of VisualEditor since then. Clearly my communication about it wasn't read, or wasn't understood, by the people who subsequently complained, but I wouldn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-25 Thread Risker
On 25 July 2013 15:45, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference was always the intention and had been mentioned several times. See here it is again. Was is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-24 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:35:02 +0200, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: This interaction was committed by a volunteer not on the VE team.[1][2] Ideally,VE would be good enough that we wouldn't need edit source links on sections at all. Personally I advocated for not including them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-24 Thread John Erling Blad
An UI showing both edit links all the time is a much better way to do it. I had the same discussion 20 years ago and as far as I know nothing has changed when it comes to hidden user interactions that suddenly (and with no explanation) changes the interaction and takes the user with surprise.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-24 Thread David Cuenca
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad jeb...@gmail.com wrote: There are good reasons why users want to turn off VE and the most important reason are not what most people in the thread seems to think. Users that have learned to use a crappy direct editing user interface tend to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-24 Thread Terry Chay
Alex, On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for changing your mind. I might have missed something, but is there any schedule for when VisualEditor will be considered 'out of beta'? You have not missed something. There is no schedule yet for out of beta and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
The numbers are important. And perhaps what isn't being reflected well here is the genuine disappointment felt by so many in the enwiki community; there was more excitement about this project than probably any other that WMF has undertaken in the past 5 years. The sudden leap from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
I was glad to see some WMF members speak their mind against the current stance from Erik and James. But when I see Erik answer, I'm clearly understanding that WMF management is simply being blind. Erik, if I read correctly your reply : - You still don't have analysed the A/B test period :

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Thanks Risker, I think you've summarized the position of many experienced users. 100% agreed. Nico On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: The numbers are important. And perhaps what isn't being reflected well here is the genuine disappointment felt by so many in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
On 07/22/2013 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Round-trip bugs, and bugs which cause a given wikitext input to give different HTML in Parsoid compared to MW, should have been detected during automated testing, prior to beta deployment. I don't know why we need users to report them. 500+ edits are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: It would imply that Wikimedia thinks preference bloat is an appropriate way forward for expenditure of donor funds. This would be a lie. Each added preference adds to the complexity of our software - so increasing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
Erik, please stop and listen. Almost without exception, people from all areas of the Wikimedia community are calling on a re-evaluation here. It's lovely to have this vision of the Mediawiki future. But until you get VisualEditor right, you need to get your feet back on the ground. People were

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tim Starling
On 23/07/13 15:23, Erik Moeller wrote: Editing this page in Firefox on a 6-year-old system only slightly faster than the tester's specs today takes about 5 seconds to initialize. In Chrome it takes about 3 seconds, in the ballpark of reloading the page into the source editor. Note that Gabriel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, Subramanya Sastry wrote: 500+ edits are being done per hour using Visual Editor 500+ people are making edits with the default editor, I'm pretty sure (without doing stats on it) that a lot of them wouldn't be experienced enough to kill it off -- -- Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
On 23 July 2013 02:32, Subramanya Sastry ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 07/22/2013 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Round-trip bugs, and bugs which cause a given wikitext input to give different HTML in Parsoid compared to MW, should have been detected during automated testing, prior to beta

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I tried editing [[Argentina]] on my laptop just now, it took 45 seconds of CPU time and 51 seconds of wall clock time before the percentage CPU usage began to drop. It's pretty slow. Yes, that's why I said

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: You pretty much had one chance at A/B testing, and it's done now. You can't repeat the tests as long as VE is the default editor. That's not correct at all. It's still entirely possible to deliver different editing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Here's a thought experiment: if visual editing had existed (with reasonable functionality) since day 1, would there ever have been a way to disable it, let alone a hue and cry over a lack of a way to disable it? This isn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Subramanya Sastry ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 07/22/2013 10:44 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Round-trip bugs, and bugs which cause a given wikitext input to give different HTML in Parsoid compared to MW, should have been detected during automated testing, prior

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On the first point, right now, we're approaching categories and similar page metadata from the point of view of the editing surface as an entrypoint. This makes sense if you simply try to map all aspects of markup (which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2013/7/23 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com What we need is for you and Erik to recognize that you're wrong and to make this right. Is there anyone besides you and Erik who agree with the position you're taking here? They are not alone. I also agree with their position, and I sincerely hope we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
snip Since the devs implemented resource loader it has become harder and harder to block the poorly developed bloat that has crept into mediawiki. I used to be able to isolate the JavaScript file causing the issues (I remember BITS geolocation being a major hog) and just block it. Now thats not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derric Atzrott
However, from a user's standpoint, it still doesn't make a ton of sense to do it that way. If I just want to add a category, I shouldn't have to invoke an editing surface at all. Similarly, if I want to turn a page into a redirect, I shouldn't have to edit the page at all. As most of you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Hi John and Risker, First off, I do want to once again clarify that my intention in the previous post was not to claim that VE/Parsoid is perfect. It was more that we've fixed sufficient bugs at this point that the most significant bugs (bugs, not missing features) that need fixing (and are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On 23 jul. 2013, at 18:06, Subramanya Sastry ssas...@wikimedia.org wrote: A leading line feed in a parameter - what the? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Sam_%26_Cat_episodescurid=39469556diff=565437324oldid=565416618 This is something I'll have to investigate. This is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On a side note, I find it interesting how none of the actual VE and Parsoid developers replied here, apart from Roan, Chris and Subbu on off-topic technical issues (thanks for that). -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
In the interest of gathering slightly larger statistics, I manually reviewed 200 VE entries on recent changes. I am classifying these as * Good edit * Test edits / newbie errors likely to happen in either editor (not VE's fault) * Obvious vandal edit (not VE's fault) * Damaged source that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Risker
Why do you think those nowiki tags were added by the editors? Risker On 23 July 2013 15:32, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: In the interest of gathering slightly larger statistics, I manually reviewed 200 VE entries on recent changes. I am classifying these as * Good edit * Test

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread John
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: snip Since the devs implemented resource loader it has become harder and harder to block the poorly developed bloat that has crept into mediawiki. I used to be able to isolate the JavaScript file causing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: Risker asks: Why do you think those nowiki tags were added by the editors? I can't speak for the original poster, but the last time I used VE, it added unwanted nowiki tags by itself. You can see an example in my most

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 23/07/13 21:12, Bartosz Dziewoński a écrit : On a side note, I find it interesting how none of the actual VE and Parsoid developers replied here, apart from Roan, Chris and Subbu on off-topic technical issues (thanks for that). I am myself not replying because I don't want to be involved.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I am a Parsoid developer. I was participant #6 in the thread. As noted, reponses #14 and #16 were also from VE developers, and our contributions have continued. From my perspective the devs involved have done a pretty good job of picking out technical content from the discussion and acting on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: Risker asks: Of course those nowiki tags weren't added by the editors, VE doesn't let you do that directly. What I think Robert was talking

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread James Forrester
On 22 July 2013 18:35, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 22 July 2013 11:45, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to know what the reason is for hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder users at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Alex Monk
Thank you for changing your mind. I might have missed something, but is there any schedule for when VisualEditor will be considered 'out of beta'? Or is it simply a case of the VE team deciding that it's stable enough? Alex Monk On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:55 AM, James Forrester

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I hope that as few users as possible will choose this way to degrade their experience and deprive the community of their input. Instead of endlessly arguing the point about this, I'd rather my team and I spending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote: I might have missed something, but is there any schedule for when VisualEditor will be considered 'out of beta'? Not so soon that we couldn't afford to let this thread die down for a bit.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Moen
I personally know for a fact nobody is trying to trick the user in this case.   We are simply trying to make editing easier for new editors without confusing them.  As a membwr f the visual editor team, I'm supportive of our advanced and seemingly more important editors opt-out during the beta.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Moen
My apologies for the ham handed email.  I'm supportive of the opt out feature while ve is in beta.  Going forward I agree with the notion that experienced editors know what editor they want to use before the page completely loads.  I like the idea of a preference to select a default editor.  —

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I know that this crafty UI was introduced to encourage users to use the new editor. The trouble is, this assumes that users have no idea which editor they want to use, and thus will happily use whatever editor the JS

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Tim Starling
I wrote: I think users should be encouraged to use VE by making VE really awesome, and by promoting its awesomeness, rather than by trying to trick them into using it. To clarify: I didn't mean to imply that the VE team were trying to trick users. They are not. I just mean that if you consider

[Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
This isn't an appropriate list for this, but MaxSem and hashar told me to post it here anyway, so here goes. There's a patch[1] to remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs, essentially allowing for disabling VE on a per-user basis again. It has overwhelming community support, but the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread bawolff
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: This isn't an appropriate list for this, but MaxSem and hashar told me to post it here anyway, so here goes. There's a patch[1] to remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs, essentially allowing for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
I wasn't aware the preference was hidden. Interesting. This should definitely be merged and deployed. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:47 AM, bawolff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
And now it's REOPENED. I'd like some justification rather than the VE team saying it's our product, so we decide. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bartosz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
On that note, I think we should start forcing MediaWiki developers to use Eclipse for PHP. Of course some people prefer using just a text editor, but I'm sure no matter what it'll be more efficient in Eclipse, and if it isn't we can just have Eclipse fix it. Seriously, though, I understand why

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: The bug for that patch was just WONTFIXed, synchronizing information. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=50929#c16https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50929#c16 Just to accomodate people too

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
The bug for that patch was just WONTFIXed, synchronizing information. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50929#c16 -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Risker
When Vector skin became the default, users continued to have preferences for other skins. That went extremely well, and did not negatively impact editing. (I'll note that there were comparatively few bugs reported when Vector became default, and none of them prevented people from doing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread John
I am getting real sick of the WMF developers shoving shity products down the throat of their users and saying FUCK YOU. That is the pattern that I have seen over the recent months starting primarily with Notifcations and now moving to VE. It really pisses me off that more and more sites are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, though, I understand why the VE team might want to force everybody to use VE That's a misrepresentation of the facts. We're not talking about forcing people to use VE. We're talking about whether there should be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread MZMcBride
I support merging and deploying https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/73565 as soon as possible. That said, there are still open questions in my mind. C. Scott Ananian wrote: Erik Moeller wrote: Our overall concern, and the reason we did not offer a preference, is that out of sight, out of mind makes it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread John
Minimal java-script load my ass, I guess you must be using a fiber-optic connection. Most pages already have a lag due to the amount of JS needed to run the site. Jumping pages have been a normal thing since resourceloader (caused by lagging JS issues) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Erik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to know what the reason is for hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder users at all, that it's JS footprint is nonexistent, and that the interface changes aren't that bothersome (which, to an extend, are true). Even with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 22/07/13 15:40, Bartosz Dziewoński a écrit : This isn't an appropriate list for this, but MaxSem and hashar told me to post it here anyway, so here goes. There's a patch[1] to remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs, essentially allowing for disabling VE on a per-user basis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: The reason I did not deploy that change on sight it is that it goes against bug 48666 which asked to hide the preference: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48666 Since I was not willing to enter an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: Minimal java-script load my ass, Your language and tone are inappropriate. Please keep it civil. I guess you must be using a fiber-optic connection. Most pages already have a lag due to the amount of JS needed to run the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tim Starling
On 23/07/13 04:36, Erik Moeller wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, though, I understand why the VE team might want to force everybody to use VE That's a misrepresentation of the facts. We're not talking about forcing people to use VE.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread James Forrester
On 22 July 2013 11:45, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to know what the reason is for hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder users at all, that it's JS footprint is nonexistent, and that the interface changes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On 7/22/13, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 22 July 2013 11:45, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to know what the reason is for hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder users at all, that it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Really? Given the number of inane preferences in Special:Preferences (I'm looking at you preference to disable sending 304 status codes), this is where we're going to draw the line? A preference for this seems fairly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Really? Given the number of inane preferences in Special:Preferences (I'm looking at you preference to disable sending 304 status codes), this is where we're going to draw the line? And also considering the fact that there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: It would imply that this is a preference​ that Wikimedia thinks is appropriate. This would be a lie. For a similar example, see the removal of the disable JavaScript option from Firefox 23. You still haven't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: It would imply that this is a preference that Wikimedia thinks is appropriate. This would be a lie. For a similar example, see the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On 7/22/13, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: It would imply that this is a preference that Wikimedia thinks is appropriate. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming a proper implementation of edit/edit source I'm not sure what the big deal is, but I'm not a hardcore editor so I'm likely just not seeing it. I don't edit that much myself, so I can't speak first-person here, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe there's a comparison to be made, but there's not really a simple way to disable VE in MediaWiki other than by having a preference. I suppose the closest comparison to the Firefox situation would be if the preference

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Tim Starling
On 23/07/13 11:35, James Forrester wrote: It would imply that this is a preference that Wikimedia will support. This would be a lie. We have always intended for VisualEditor to be a wiki-level preference, and for this user-level preference to disappear once the need for an opt-in (i.e., the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Summit
Tyler Romeo wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Each added preference adds to the complexity of our software - so increasing the cost and slowness of development and testing, and the difficulty of user support. Stop being so dramatic. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread David Cuenca
I'm glad that Tim is bringing some facts and numbers that back up what the community is demanding. To do otherwise will be to play tug-of-war which will lead to an even worse outcome. Besides of enabling the preference, a good approach would be to activate or deactivate that preference depending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread MZMcBride
James Forrester wrote: ​Creating such a preference is a lie, and a lie I cannot endorse. Oh, for Christ's sake, James. The last thing this thread needs is very bad pseudo-poetry. And that's not a lie. What we need is for you and Erik to recognize that you're wrong and to make this right. Is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: and the results from Aaron Halfaker's study [2] As noted at the top of the page, the analysis is still in progress. Importantly, there were many confounding variables in the test, some of which are already documented.