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hewiki - blue dot incorrectly points to Edit source tab
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Per @MMiller_WMF finding:

hewiki has a different tab order for editors selection (VE and wikitext) which causes the blue dot (to guide newcomers to click on VE) be placed on the wikitext editor:

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(in English)

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Note: In two other RTL wikis - arwiki and fawiki - do not have the issue: the order of tabs is different from hewiki (following RTL ordrer of LTR version).

arwikifawiki
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Event Timeline

Change 622229 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Guidance: Don't choose first edit link, instead prefer VE

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/622229

Change 622229 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Guidance: Don't choose first edit link, instead prefer VE

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/622229

Just FYI- checked in hewiki wmf.8 (also re-checked for regression in`arwiki`) - the issue is fixed.

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