I think we can agree that VE has some performance considerations, but if
you take a look at the bug report, it's explained why it would be so
incredibly difficult to implement section editing.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:12 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Matthew Flaschen
> <mflasc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > On 08/02/2013 07:43 AM, rupert THURNER wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> in visual editor, would it be possible to edit only a paragraph, when
> one
> >> clicks the edit link on a paragraph? if not, why not? currently an a
> decent
> >> laptop, clicking the "edit" link on whatever page or section takes at
> least
> >> 4 seconds. this is unexpectedly slow.
> >
> > Section editing is bug
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48429 .  My understanding
> > is that it's on their road map, but down the road.
>
> i tried it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mourinho, and it
> is 6 clicks + 5 pgdn + 75 seconds compared to 3 clicks + 1 pgdn + 14
> secs.
> * 1 click and 15 secs to edit
> * 1 click to make go a away a note (see attachment at the bug)
> * 1 click to edit summary
> * 1 click and 20 secs to review changes
> * 1 click to return to save form
> * 1 click and 40 secs to save
> * 5* pg down to go to the section just edited
>
> section edit with the text editor takes:
> * 1 click and 2 secs to open
> * 1 click and 2 secs to preview
> * 1 pg-down to find the save button (which is imo unnecessary, should
> be on top as well)
> * 1 click and 10 secs to save
>
> rupert.
>
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