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Enable VisualEditor in the Project namespace for Swahili Wikipedia (swwiki)
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Description

Rationale

Currently, the VisualEditor (VE) is enabled for Main (articles) and User namespaces on Swahili Wikipedia (swwiki), but it is disabled in the Project namespace (Wikipedia:).

As a small but rapidly growing language community, we heavily rely on the Project namespace to coordinate community campaigns, edit-a-thons, and regional user group activities (e.g., creating project dashboards, writing local guidelines, and setting up collaboration tables).

Forcing organizers and local editors to use the raw source editor exclusively in the Project namespace creates an unnecessary technical barrier and slows down community development. Enabling VE here will significantly improve workflow efficiency for project coordination.

Request

Please update the configuration for Swahili Wikipedia (swwiki) to enable VisualEditor in the Project namespace (NS_PROJECT).

Thank you!

Event Timeline

Noting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/FAQ#talk:

The visual editor has not been designed to edit discussions. With the deployment of DiscussionTools, it is possible to deploy the visual editor to Wikipedia namespace and to namespaces where conversations happen. However, editing or participating into discussions using the "edit" button will trigger limitations, like breaking indentations or page setup. It is possible to deploy the visual editor to these namespaces, only if communities acknowledge of these limitations, and accept that the editing team will not be prioritizing any issues that emerge as a result of people using the visual editor in namespace it hasn't been designed for

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes also requires consensus in a local community discussion (and linking to the result of the discussion in this Phabricator ticket).

neriah changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Sat, May 23, 5:36 PM

We've finalized it with eleven people are in favor of the changes. Thanks!

codenamenoreste changed the task status from Stalled to In Progress.Sat, May 30, 4:21 PM
codenamenoreste claimed this task.
codenamenoreste triaged this task as Medium priority.

Change #1295536 had a related patch set uploaded (by Codename Noreste; author: Codename Noreste):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] swwiki: Enable the Visual Editor on the project namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295536

Change #1295536 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] swwiki: Enable the Visual Editor on the project namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295536

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T13:02:40Z] <mszwarc@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295536|swwiki: Enable the Visual Editor on the project namespace (T427117)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T13:04:31Z] <mszwarc@deploy1003> codenamenoreste, mszwarc: Backport for [[gerrit:1295536|swwiki: Enable the Visual Editor on the project namespace (T427117)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-01T13:12:46Z] <mszwarc@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1295536|swwiki: Enable the Visual Editor on the project namespace (T427117)]] (duration: 10m 06s)