Right now, if you switch to alpha mode and click the edit button on a page like...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaldari
...you get an error since VisualEditor is disabled for that namespace on en.wiki.
To fix this, we need to surface the config settings in wmgVisualEditorNamespaces on the client-side and use it in the editor loading process in editor.js.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
bingle-admin wrote:
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/cZTY61hQ
Looks like the information is already available on the client-side:
mw.config.get( 'wgVisualEditorConfig' ).namespaces
Change 130794 had a related patch set uploaded by Kaldari:
Make sure mobile VisualEditor is only loaded when appropriate
Change 130794 merged by jenkins-bot:
Make sure mobile VisualEditor is only loaded when appropriate
Change 132124 had a related patch set uploaded by Kaldari:
Only create editor switcher from wikitext editor if VE is usable
Change 132124 merged by jenkins-bot:
Only create editor switcher from wikitext editor if VE is usable