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Enable VisualEditor as an editing option by default on WMF 'private' wikis
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The FDC-Wiki has Visual Editor as an opt-in BETA tool - the same configuration as on English Wikipedia. Presumably there are different configurations on the other private wikis operated by the WMF (e.g. boardWiki, officeWiki...)

Since it is the eventual plan for VE to be the primary editing interface, and the WMF has a general principle of using its own software (also known as 'eating your own dogfood'), V.E. should be made available by default on all WMF private wikis alongside the traditional 'source' editing option.

These are not public-facing wikis where the local volunteer community has to have a public consensus about the configuration. They are internal-facing wikis used by WMF staff or particular committees (like the FDC) and therefore should be using the configuration that the WMF recommends for the public-facing wikis. That is: VE is available to all users as the 'edit' option with 'edit source' as the alternative option.

  • arbcom_dewiki
  • arbcom_enwiki
  • arbcom_fiwiki
  • arbcom_nlwiki
  • auditcomwiki
  • boardgovcomwiki
  • boardwiki
  • chairwiki
  • chapcomwiki
  • checkuserwiki
  • collabwiki
  • execwiki
  • fdcwiki
  • grantswiki
  • iegcomwiki
  • ilwikimedia
  • internalwiki
  • legalteamwiki
  • movementroleswiki
  • noboard_chapterswikimedia
  • officewiki
  • ombudsmenwiki
  • otrs_wikiwiki
  • searchcomwiki
  • spcomwiki
  • stewardwiki
  • transitionteamwiki
  • wg_enwiki
  • wikimaniateamwiki
  • zerowiki

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Wittylama assigned this task to Matanya.
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It's trivial to do, but each wiki has its own community, and a great many of the private wikis aren't internal to WMF. You can see at the bottom of https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=visualeditor-default.dblist the private wikis which have VE on by default; there are however a number of other private wikis (see https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=private.dblist for a list) and they might disagree.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Enable Visual Editor as an editing option by default on WMF 'private' wikis to Enable VisualEditor as an editing option by default on WMF 'private' wikis.Jul 31 2015, 11:21 PM
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I don't think it makes sense to do this for all private wikis purely because they're private. We shouldn't bother leaving this open if we're just going to wait for a representative of each to chime in. If you really want this to happen I think you should contact people from each and have them make individual requests. I doubt you'll be able to get all of them to do so...

Boldly marking this as invalid per my comment above