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Why did the source editor become so horrible?

It's still a measly text field, with no syntax highlights or any extra features. Yet when I paste long wikimedia source text it takes an obscene amount of time to do so. As well as Firefox interrupting the process with a "script is slowing down the browser" message (paraphasing). It ridiculous. It's plaintext, that's not processed in any shape or form, yet I need minutes to paste a large table for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dqeswn (talk • contribs) 18:03, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dqeswn: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Help:Editing. You would be better off asking at WP:VPT; but I suspect that it is something to do with m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Warn when linking to disambiguation pages. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:23, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially. But I didn't see any, only a lot of links to internal pages and a lot of references.

And wouldn't it be simpler to show such warnings, when you try to save and it offers you to preview and add a comment (etc)?

(It was this text actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dqeswn/sandbox?veaction=editsource&section=1#Deaths ) Dqeswn (talk) 18:36, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article no longer valid, editing cheatsheet is no longer

I now only come to Wikipedia occasionally to make a comment on talk pages, as I've become thoroughly discontent with what wikipedia has become. But even this has been made difficult. The only editing cues I now have access to on Firefox are B,I,A,link,@. There's not even a signature shortcut anymore. When I visit the French wikipedia, there's a super long useful cheatsheet. What is happening? I had to google search how to add a signature to this comment. :( ~~~~ Tallard (talk) 01:25, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the documentation for Source Editor

All of the links that I have tried for the Source editor take me to wikitext. I can easily find a link to Visual Editor, but where is the link to the Source Editor rather than the markup language? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:03, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"HowDoesOneEditaPage" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect HowDoesOneEditaPage has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 9 § HowDoesOneEditaPage until a consensus is reached. User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 09:39, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy between edit box images

I noticed that the edit box image shown just under this sentence, "Your changes will immediately be visible to all Wikipedia users," is different from the one that displays when I'm actually editing. The one we see in the article must be an older version of the edit box. Augnablik (talk) 18:24, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A few format inconsistencies in the article

In the beginning of the article, I was surprised to find some format inconsistencies in the way the Visual Editor and the Source Editor appear, and thought to call them to the attention of whoever does the updating:

1. The Visual Editor has no space between the two words; the Source Editor does have one.

2. The Visual Editor is followed by its acronym (VE); the Source Editor is not.

3. There are format inconsistencies in the titles of the articles to which the two links lead:

  — The Visual Editor link leads to an article called "Wikipedia:VisualEditor."
  — The Source Editor link leads to an article called "Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/1." Augnablik (talk) 11:16, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]