Wikipedia:VisualEditor

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Enable VisualEditor.	Read VisualEditor's User Guide.	Report a problem with VisualEditor.
VisualEditor is enabled by default for new registered editors. If it is not enabled for you, and you are logged in, go to Preferences, click Editing, check Enable the visual editor, and click Save. Or use this sandbox link for testing.	Find out how to make links, add or move images, create citations, insert templates, edit tables, and more.	Use Phabricator to report problems with Visual Editor. Please include your web browser, computer operating system, and Wikipedia skin (usually Vector (2022), sometimes Vector Legacy (2010)). Start a new Phabricator ticket.

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About

Documentation:
Development:
- Roadmap up to 2017
- Updates (2013-2023)
- Weekly status reports (2015-2016)

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Research

Main research page

Other

Why are the developers building this? (2013)
- User Test Data (2013)
Customization
Known problems
Requests for Comments (RfCs): Jul 2013 a, Jul 2013 b, Jul 2015, Sep 2015

Welcome to the portal for VisualEditor, an editing tool developed by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). It allows users to contribute to Wikipedia without the prerequisite need to learn or understand the underlying language and formatting. Before the release of this tool, the only way for users to make contributions to Wikipedia was by using the 'Source editor', which requires users to understand wiki markup (also known as wikitext) in order for their intended edits to be formatted and displayed how they were intended; however, VisualEditor provides a new way for people to edit most elements of articles and pages without the need to understand any code or markup. The WMF staff hopes that this tool will encourage more readers to become editors.

Experienced editors may still prefer editing with the wikitext source editor because they find it faster, more precise, more full-featured, and less buggy. It will also be needed for editing all discussion pages. Editors who enable VisualEditor will always have the Source editor option available on every page.

VisualEditor still has many bugs and missing features. If you encounter an issue using the VisualEditor on Wikipedia.org or another Wikimedia project (i.e., not on a third-party wiki), you can report it on the MediaWiki Feedback page. WMF staff prefer that you report bugs via the Phabricator bug tracking website.