This task is about making it so logged out editors of en.wiki are able to switch to the visual editor from within the WikiEditor's editing toolbar.
=== Background
This change is being made for the following reasons:
- This change will correct the regression T243723 introduced. [1]
- We are not aware of any agreements or decisions that specified there not be an affordance for switching editing interfaces within the WikiEditor's editing toolbar for anonymous editors editing en.wiki.
- In the time between now and when the regression [2] was introduced (the end of February, 2020) [3], we have **not** seen a stark and sustained decrease in the number of reverted edits made by anonymous editors using the browser, on desktop, at en.wiki. [4]
=== Behavior
1. On desktop, visit your favorite en.wiki article while being logged out
2. Click "Edit"
**Actual**
3. ❗️Notice there is no way to switch editing modes within the WikiEditor's toolbar.
**Expected**
3. ✅Notice there is a way to switch editing modes within the WikiEditor's toolbar.
=== Done
- [ ] "Expected" behavior has been implemented.
---
1.
|VE edits over time*|
| --- |
| {F31844831} |
| *Logged-out users on desktop (the blue-ish bars at the bottom of the graph) have been making edits since the beginning of 2016 then and have mostly stopped since the beginning of this year.|
2. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/573722/
3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.21 landed on en.wiki on 27-Feb-2020
4.
|Reverted edits| Filtlers |
| --- | --- |
| {F31845910} | {F31845912}|