CodeEditor should fail if WikiEditor is not available
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	BonyEarth
	Feb 4 2017, 8:54 PM

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@MarkAHershberger and I spent a great deal of time trying to get the edit page on a business wiki to display CodeEditor.

Even after various iterations of code scrutinization; interweb research; and function tests within the code, it refused to display. It was only upon finding an error message about wikiEditor that we had a tangible clue to the solution, which involved commenting out a preference check and then installing wikiEditor.

Instead of quietly failing, code should prompt the user to install wikiEditor.

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Mentioned Here: T67072: Should throw an exception if WikiEditor is not installed

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BonyEarth created this task.Feb 4 2017, 8:54 PM

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BonyEarth added projects: CodeEditor, WikiEditor.Feb 4 2017, 8:56 PM

Change 336038 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ):
CodeEditor should fail if wikiEditor is not available

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336038

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 6 2017, 10:17 AM

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from CodeEditor should fail if wikiEditor is not available to CodeEditor should fail if WikiEditor is not available.Feb 7 2017, 7:56 PM

Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to MarkAHershberger.

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to External and Administrivia on the VisualEditor board.Feb 7 2017, 8:01 PM

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