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== Support ends for the 2006 wikitext editor ==
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Task T30856

The 2006 wikitext editor will be officially removed next week, on the normal deployment train (i.e., Thursday, 25 October 2018 for the English Wikipedia). This has been discussed since at least 2011, was planned for at least three different months in 2017, and is finally happening.

This toolbar is being removed from MediaWiki.

If you are using this toolbar (and almost none of you are), then you will be given no toolbar at all (the 2003 wikitext editor). This default was chosen so that your editing windows will open even faster, and to avoid cluttering the window with the larger toolbars (a particularly important consideration for Wikisource's PagePreviews). Of course, if you decide that you would prefer the 2010 or 2017 wikitext editors (or a gadget like WikEd), then you are free to change your preferences at any time.

Although it is not a very popular script overall, I know that some editors strongly prefer this particular tool for specific reasons, such as regularly using the <sub> or <sup> buttons. If you are one of its fans, then you might want to know that some long-time editors are talking about re-implementing its best features as a volunteer-supported user script. I believe that any announcements about that project will be made at mw:Contributors/Projects/Removal of the 2006 wikitext editor. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And if you're thinking "Yeah, she said that three times last year..." – No, really, the fourth time's the charm! This time, they really do think it's not going to completely break the wikis. ;-) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Best of luck, I'll be sorry to see it go! In case you're interested in some anecdata, it was the codeeditor that really did it for me. I like the shortness and simplicity of the old one, but the linting is just too useful for js/css. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 21:03, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
How does one know which toolbar one is using? DuncanHill (talk) 21:37, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
See Help:Edit toolbar. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Or see mw:Editor which has an overview of all different editors that are currently supported. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:59, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm with DuncanHill, i'm afraid; completely non-techclever, i simply found a Preference which says "Show edit toolbar" and i've had it active for years, i think. Is that the toolbar that's going? How do i choose another one? The only other Preference i've seen talks about an enhanced toolbar, which rather frightens me.... Happy days (or possibly not, if i don't understand toolbars), LindsayHello 15:41, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The editing preferences are unusually confusing, even by Wikipedia standards. Some of the pref items silently override the others, and it's especially difficult to explain to new editors. I've proposed improvements at phab:T202921, but unless that wins the m:Community Wishlist (starts in a few weeks), I don't think it will happen any time soon.
Lindsay, if you're a non-technical person, then you might want to consider trying the visual editor again. It is really vastly better than it was back in the day. If you don't have separate "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs already, then look for a little pencil icon (not the highlighter marker pen) and switch to it. It works mostly like a normal word processing document, and is really the only sensible way to do some things, like adding or removing a column from a large wikitext table.
If you prefer wikitext, then I think you would likely be happy with the light blue "enhanced" toolbar. It has been the default for all users since approximately 2010, and it gets used thousands and thousands of times each day with very few complaints.
Finally, if you don't actually use the buttons in the little toolbar (which is not unusual for experienced editors), then your easiest option is probably doing nothing. In that case, the toolbar, which you're already not using, will just go away all by itself. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:22, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. I fully and wholly expect a lot of editors to turn up here on the day in question, who as always likely missed all the announcements, because they just don't follow fora like these. Please keep in mind, that according to the data, last year 1500 en.wp editors making a single edit in a 1 month period had the toolbar enabled. Note this doesn't equal USED the toolbar, many people simply have it enabled because they always have. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:59, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Of course they will. It's just impossible to keep up with everything. That's why I appreciate it so much when people ping me for interesting discussions. This will also be announced in m:Tech/News on Monday, as well as the Editing newsletter, which will go out next week (Tuesday?).
Schedule update: There's been a slight delay. But it's finally up on the Beta Cluster. It doesn't seem to have broken anything obvious, so it should reach this wiki next WP:THURSDAY.
Tech folks here might want to take a look at what Arkanosis has been doing about a replacement script, especially that edit about a gadget for Monobook users. (Hmm, I wonder whether the copies of gadgets are up to date on the Beta Cluster? If they're not, that might explain why last week's watchlist problem wasn't visible until it hit production.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:37, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

October 2018[edit]

Stop icon You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at User talk:Nowhither. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:06, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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October 2018[edit]

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 10:10, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018[edit]

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