https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55900
James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Priority|Unprioritized |Low
Status|NEW |ASSIGNED
Summary|veaction=edit should invoke |VisualEditor: veaction=edit
|VE irrespective of user |should invoke VE
|prefs |irrespective of user prefs
Severity|normal |enhancement
--- Comment #2 from James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> ---
(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.
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