As Ed surfaced in chat, conversations [1] about what the most useful workflow [2] for previewing a reply composed in wikitext have been going on for some time.
The design, thus far [3], has the preview "replacing" a contributor's text input.
This task is about exploring what an approach might look like where a contributor is able to view their text input and a preview of how their text input will be rendered on the page side-by-side.
=== Details
Platform: **desktop**
=== Done
- [ ] Mockup showing what it would be like for contributors to be able to view their text input and a preview of how that text input would be rendered on the page when published
- [ ] Mockups to both approaches are posted on wiki for contributor input
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1. T155732, [Preview "oddity" w.r.t. sidebar](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Th7bhe23lcp2168j), [A Preview panel that doesn't obscure the wikitext edit box (Was: No feature parity)](https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Tjcvoydqbk5h1n4l)
2. Does the preview "overtake" the text input area? Is the preview presented in a way such that the content a contributor has composed and the preview of said text are viewable simultaneously?
3. [Zeplin](https://app.zeplin.io/project/5db98e5c0c012583409eb5f9/screen/5dba396b98c4802c45d2caa2) + T235592