⚓ T361134 Set wgMFFallbackEditor to 'visual' for all other wikis

Wikis	Status
A/B test wikis and Edit Check partners	✅ Done in T351778
VE-enabled wikis (except English)	✅ Done on 2024-04-11
English Wikipedia	T431858

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	MobileFrontend: remove override for default mobile editor	DLynch	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+0 -2
	Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis	Esanders	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -45

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		ppelberg	T221185 Prepare visual editor to be a default mobile editor
Resolved		ppelberg	T351778 [MILESTONE] Offer mobile VE as default for at Edit Check partner + test wikis
Open		None	T361134 Set wgMFFallbackEditor to 'visual' for all other wikis
Resolved	Feature	Esanders	T431858 Make VisualEditor the default editor on enwiki's mobile web, especially for newbies and TAs
Resolved		Sdkb	T432026 Announce the planned deployment of VE as the default editing interface for newcomers (mobile)

Esanders created this task.Mar 27 2024, 5:17 PM

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Change #1015086 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1015086

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Change #1015086 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1015086

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-04-11T14:27:56Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1015086|Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis (T361134)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-04-11T14:30:44Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy1002> dreamyjazz and esanders: Backport for [[gerrit:1015086|Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis (T361134)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-04-11T14:52:07Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1015086|Set wgMFFallbackEditor to visual for most VE wikis (T361134)]] (duration: 24m 11s)

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Change #1119197 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] MobileFrontend: remove override for default mobile editor

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1119197

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