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Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on English Wiktionary
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Please enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on English Wiktionary.

This namespace contains quasi-encyclopedic content and the very small cohort of enwiktionary users who use VE would benefit from having this tool available from the UI, noting that it is already available by manually adding ?veaction=edit to the URL.

As VisualEditor is not enabled by default on enwiktionary and hence is used by very few editors, community consensus does not seem relevant, as most editors would have no opinion - and moreover, the feature is already available by editing the URL. Instead there was a discussion on the Beer Parlour where nobody objected to the idea of enabling this tool in the Appendix namespace: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2023/October#VisualEditor_disabled_in_some_namespaces.

Event Timeline

Change 978023 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anzx; author: Anzx):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on English Wiktionary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/978023

Change 978023 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on enwiktionary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/978023

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-11-29T08:38:14Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:978023|Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on enwiktionary (T350926)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-11-29T08:39:41Z] <hashar@deploy2002> hashar and anzx: Backport for [[gerrit:978023|Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on enwiktionary (T350926)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-11-29T08:48:25Z] <hashar@deploy2002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:978023|Enable VisualEditor in the Appendix namespace on enwiktionary (T350926)]] (duration: 10m 10s)

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