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In VE, new users may use tutorials/wizards which use [[ https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Help:Creating_and_using_editintro_and_preload_templates | editintro/preload ]] features, which aren't supported by the visual editor yet. (copy from description of merged T56029) > For BLP's and disambiguation pages on the English Wikipedia, an extra edit notice is provided through the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITINTRO system using [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox |Extension:InputBox]] and some code in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js |MediaWiki:Common.js]] (the very last section, "`Magic editintros`") . VisualEditor does not work with Extension:InputBox, so the edit notice is not displayed. (copy from comments [with tweaks]) > @Cenarium writes: > To work as desired VE would need to respect the editintro= url parameter. For example > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bahn?veaction=edit&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro > [vs > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bahn?action=edit&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro in wikitext ] > and use that to fill in the edit notice with Template:BLP_editintro. > A couple of lines in MediaWiki:Common.js would add the parameters to URL's for all BLPs. and > @TheDJ writes: > alternatively, get away from this specific implementation and try to move it into core as "category based edit notices" and VE gets the notice for free. and > @Cenarium writes: > I've created a specific task for per category editnotices, {T85372}, I had already suggested it for the more general T20596 but this didn't get implemented.

In VE, new users may use tutorials/wizards which use [[ https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Help:Creating_and_using_editintro_and_preload_templates | editintro/preload ]] features, which aren't supported by the visual editor yet.

In VE, new users may use tutorials/wizards which use [[ https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Help:Creating_and_using_editintro_and_preload_templates | editintro/preload ]] features, which aren't supported by the visual editor yet. (copy from description of merged T56029) > For BLP's and disambiguation pages on the English Wikipedia, an extra edit notice is provided through the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITINTRO system using [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox |Extension:InputBox]] and some code in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js |MediaWiki:Common.js]] (the very last section, "`Magic editintros`") . VisualEditor does not work with Extension:InputBox, so the edit notice is not displayed. (copy from comments [with tweaks]) > @Cenarium writes: > To work as desired VE would need to respect the editintro= url parameter. For example > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bahn?veaction=edit&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro > [vs > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bahn?action=edit&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro in wikitext ] > and use that to fill in the edit notice with Template:BLP_editintro. > A couple of lines in MediaWiki:Common.js would add the parameters to URL's for all BLPs. and > @TheDJ writes: > alternatively, get away from this specific implementation and try to move it into core as "category based edit notices" and VE gets the notice for free. and > @Cenarium writes: > I've created a specific task for per category editnotices, {T85372}, I had already suggested it for the more general T20596 but this didn't get implemented.