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When trying to edit a redirect page, the 2017 wikitext editor opens the target (destination) page instead if the user has opted out of visual editor
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From @Elitre:

Per Diwas:
"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178976 is with the New wikitext mode, not the WYSIWYG mode. Be sure that beta feature New wikitext mode and Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-editing: Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta are checked. You will be have only one edit link Edit, but not Edit source. The Link Edit will start the New wikitext mode. But with a redirect page it will open the target page, not the redirect page."

I can finally reproduce this issue.
Previously also reported at mw.org.

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• Deskana created this task.Dec 19 2017, 4:24 PM
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• Deskana mentioned this in T178976: When VE is disabled but NWE is enabled and wiki is in multi-tab mode, initialization code for the "Edit" tab doesn't run.Dec 19 2017, 7:40 PM
• Deskana renamed this task from When trying to edit a redirect page, the 2017 wikitext editor opens the target (destination) page instead to When trying to edit a redirect page, the 2017 wikitext editor opens the target (destination) page instead if the user has opted out of visual editor.Dec 19 2017, 7:44 PM
• Deskana triaged this task as Low priority.Dec 19 2017, 7:46 PM
• Deskana set the point value for this task to 1.

This only happens if you're using the 2017 wikitext editor beta feature, but have opted out of visual editor, which is a strange combination. Otherwise editing the redirect works just fine in both visual and wikitext modes.

I wouldn't quite call this an unsupported configuration, but it's definitely not standard. This can't be prioritised right now.

• Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Dec 19 2017, 7:46 PM
• Elitre added a comment.EditedDec 20 2017, 12:07 PM
In T183270#3849227, @Deskana wrote:

This only happens if you're using the 2017 wikitext editor beta feature, but have opted out of visual editor, which is a strange combination. Otherwise editing the redirect works just fine in both visual and wikitext modes.

I wouldn't quite call this an unsupported configuration, but it's definitely not standard. This can't be prioritised right now.

(It makes more sense when you think about how the visual editor was rolled out at the German Wikipedia in 2016, as a default for newly registered and anonymous users.)

• Deskana closed this task as a duplicate of T178976: When VE is disabled but NWE is enabled and wiki is in multi-tab mode, initialization code for the "Edit" tab doesn't run.Dec 21 2017, 10:52 AM
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