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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:V2g0amuhr2jetjoj
As discussed at the topic above, the Structured Discussions gadget does not provide any way to preview contributions. In particular, it does not show any toolbar. This makes it much less useful, and tends to result in many edited posts.
I have gone through the debugging steps at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Locating_broken_scripts without success.
Some more things I have established:
Structured Discussions itself is not a gadget. :)
Please provide a link so someone else could try to reproduce the problem. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug - thanks! Also, which browser is used?
Thanks. Cannot reproduce on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Bovlb as I see the toolbar in Firefox 67 and being logged in...
Which browser do you use? Does this also happen with another browser?
Which browser do you use?
Google Chrome
Version 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Does this also happen with another browser?
I can also reproduce the problem in Safari Version 12.1 (14607.1.40.1.4), Firefox 63.0.3, or Firefox 67.0.4.
I cannot reproduce the problem with my secondary account. So it's beginning to look like the problem is something to do with my account.
I've tried on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Bovlb?debug=true both with Chromium and Firefox and both with your content of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bovlb/common.js and without, but could not reproduce.
So it's beginning to look like the problem is something to do with my account.
As I said, I was wondering if this is related to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bovlb/common.js .
It might not be related but it's broken in the line importScript( 'MediaWiki:Gadget-statementSort.js]' ); due to the ].
As I said, I was wondering if this is related to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bovlb/common.js .
It might not be related but it's broken in the line importScript( 'MediaWiki:Gadget-statementSort.js]' ); due to the ].
Good catch. Unfortunately, I still experience the problem when I blank common.js.
The Growth-Team will investigate the user's preferences then determine how to proceed.
As indicated in this comment, it's expected/documented behavior that if you disable VisualEditor in Flow, you will not see a toolbar or a preview button. This is because the preview is provided by switching to VisualEditor.
I turns out that the bug reporter did disable this preference; they can fix this for themselves by re-enabling this preference.
I have tried setting these two options, but it does not seem to change the behaviour.
Also, these options are unset in my secondary account, which does not experience the problem.
There is no indication on the "Structured Discussions on user talk" that it won't work correctly unless certain other options are set.
Is there any update on this? I've been trying out structured discussions on my talk page, but this lack of preview makes it very hard to use the tool effectively.
@Bovlb - based on your screenshot, you enabled beta features for Visual editor and wikitext mode. @Catrope in his comment suggested to enable another option - "Enable the visual editor and the new wikitext mode in Structured Discussions" which is in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing :
Enable the visual editor and the new wikitext mode in Structured Discussions
I'm sure that I tried that before, and it didn't work, but I tried it again today, and now it is working.
Although my issue now appears to be resolved, we still have the issues that:
It happen sometimes with preferences: an enables preference is not taken into account and has to be unchecked and checked back again. Like you did, it usually works.
Although my issue now appears to be resolved, we still have the issues that:
- The documentation does not explain how to enable this feature in working form
How would you phrase the explanation, in one short paragraph?
- The feature allows itself to be enabled in non-working form.
You mean the preferences input?
Thanks for following up on this @Bovlb. Our team discussed this and we decided that this behavior in flow is okay to keep for the time being. However, the Editing-team is thinknig about hte future of On-Wiki Communication. cc: @ppelberg