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Trying to force the visual editor to load on a talk page whilst logged out causes the welcome dialogue to have no buttons (or other strange behaviour)
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Be on a browser that has never edited before, and either on an account that has never editor before or be logged out. (e.g. use an incognito window to reproduce easily)
  2. Go to any user talk page, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Deskana_(WMF).
  3. Try to force the visual editor to load by adding ?veaction=edit to the end of the URL.

The page will load, and you're presented with the welcome dialogue, but it has no buttons on it. It can be dismissed by pressing escape.

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Deskana created this task.Sep 18 2017, 9:00 AM
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Deskana renamed this task from Trying to force the visual editor to load on a user talk page whilst logged out causes the welcome dialogue to have no buttons to Trying to force the visual editor to load on a talk page whilst logged out causes the welcome dialogue to have no buttons.Sep 18 2017, 9:00 AM
Deskana triaged this task as Low priority.Sep 18 2017, 9:03 AM
Deskana updated the task description. (Show Details)

The edgiest of edge cases.

Deskana set the point value for this task to 1.Sep 18 2017, 9:03 AM
Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.
Deskana mentioned this in T176099: Trying to use `veaction=edit` on a talk page loads the source editor and puts the page's HTML in the edit window.
Deskana lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.Feb 23 2018, 5:14 PM
Deskana renamed this task from Trying to force the visual editor to load on a talk page whilst logged out causes the welcome dialogue to have no buttons to Trying to force the visual editor to load on a talk page whilst logged out causes the welcome dialogue to have no buttons (or other strange behaviour).Jul 13 2018, 10:04 AM
Deskana merged a task: T199411: Forcing visual editing in a non-VE namespace can fail horribly.
Deskana added subscribers: Schnark, Raymond.

More details about other cases are available in the description of T199411.

Schnark added a comment.Jul 14 2018, 8:33 AM
In T176125#3614129, @Deskana wrote:

The edgiest of edge cases.

Please note that due to the fact that this fails only for part of the users, some users think it a good idea to expose such links in the public.

Schnark added a comment.Apr 26 2019, 7:39 AM

The originally reported issue isn't really a duplicate of T219457, but after merging T199411 it is, so I'll mark it as duplicate (it should have been done the other way round, but now the patch is linked to T219457).

Schnark closed this task as a duplicate of T219457: Opening VisualEditor in a disabled namespace with 2017 wikitext editor enabled displays raw Parsoid HTML.Apr 26 2019, 7:39 AM
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