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Highlighted wikisyntax while editing articles [AOI]
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As a Wikipedia editor I want to see highlighted wikisyntax while editing articles in sourcecode mode.

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This task is #20 in the 2015 Community Wishlist survey.
This has also been one of the top 20 requests of the technical wishes survey in de-wiki in 2015

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Syntax highlighting is now live on Test Wiki as a beta feature:

https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures

We're testing it this week before we deploy it to live wikis, so feel free to take a look, and leave comments here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting

Change 229616 abandoned by TheDJ:
[WIP] Syntax highlighter

Reason:
I think we can abandon this.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/229616

A heads-up for people who are watching this ticket: the Beta feature is live again on LTR projects.

Lea_WMDE renamed this task from [GTWL] Epic: Highlighted wikisyntax while editing articles [AOI] to Highlighted wikisyntax while editing articles [AOI].Mar 9 2018, 11:01 AM
Lea_WMDE updated the task description. (Show Details)

The feature works at the 2003/default WikiEditor (the one without the javascript-coded toolbars filled with buttons as seen in later WikiEditors). I just have to:

  1. Enable the Toolbar
  2. Enable the "Syntax Highlighting" feature in the Beta Preference
  3. Click the syntax highlighting button in the Toolbar
  4. Disable the Toolbar without disabling the feature

I can enable or disable the feature without disabling it in the Toolbar. More at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting#Not_working_in_2003_WikiEditor_and_whether_to_enable_or_disable_by_default

I wonder whether a separate task is necessary.

kaldari claimed this task.

Thanks, forgot to close this task!

Thanks, forgot to close this task!

I'm pretty sure this is meant to be the "for all users" task (i.e. the super-task of T185030 and T170001) and shouldn't be closed yet?

Good point. The feature is currently only available to logged-in users on some wikis, so it's only partially resolved.

CodeMirror has been deployed. Marking this as Resolved. Outstanding subtasks are stalled.

CodeMirror has been deployed. Marking this as Resolved. Outstanding subtasks are stalled.

Apparently I forgot to resolve this. The outstanding task about support of RTL wikis on standard editors can be dealt with outside of this. Support on RTL is available on the 2017 wikitext editor.