Right -- and if not that specifically, I'd imagine most experienced users do have various hacks, scripts, gadgets etc installed that we've accumulated over the years. I know many people who have been editing for a long time have a custom skin as well.
I don't know how any of these might or might not affect VE performance, but one thing about the VE being enabled for IPs too (at least on a few wikipedias) is you can always log out and see if the same problem persists :) -- phoebe On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have tried and failed to use the Visual Editor several times in the > past few weeks, and as with all new technologies, I consider myself a > "follower" rather than a "leader", so I was very interested to look > up the Dutch feedback that Romaine was reporting. One of the comments > was that it was impossible to create a simple blue link with the VE, > since the VE throws <nowiki> around any attempt to do this. Since that > is one of the most basic parts of wikimarkup that anyone will use, I > decided to investigate, since that was my problem too. > > I am happy to report that I just discovered what the problem is. I had > turned off the "Show edit toolbar" option in my preferences (probably > over a year ago), so I wasn't seeing the top part of the VE edit > toolbar, which includes the hyperlink icon, among other things. I was > only seeing the other, second, line of the VE toolbar icons for > including media, reference, references list, and transclusion. > > I expect that many other experienced Wikipedians have the same > problem. This should help solve a lot of the "ghost edits". > > 2013/7/26, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > > On 26 July 2013 03:12, Everton Zanella Alvarenga > > <everton.alvare...@okfn.org> wrote: > > > >> Maybe a new community (less conservative?) to build a good > >> encyclopedia can come up if a new platformn be invented? > > > > > > Hence "power users" as a snarl word. > > > > After the uprising of the 17th of June > > The Secretary of the Writers’ Union > > Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee > > Stating that the people > > Had forfeited the confidence of the government > > And could win it back only > > By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier > > In that case for the government > > To dissolve the people > > And elect another? > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>