Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200319160218/@comment-24692230-20200319210945

Himmalerin wrote: I found a hacky way to force the default mediawiki editor. First, go to Special:Preferences and make sure your preferred editor is set to the Source Editor.

Install uBlock origin or another program that supports Adblock Plus-compatible filters. In uBlock origin's settings, go to the "My filters" tab and paste the following code in, then press "Apply changes" ! Prevent the Fandom's VisualEditor from loading user.defaults*

When you go to edit a page, add  to the end of the url. You should now get the default mediawiki editor.

Note: Doing this can break things. Most notably, it prevents you from switching tabs in Special:Preferences.

It's very manual (needing to add  whenever you want to edit a page), but hey, it works :p you could use tampermonkey or etc to add the url param to every edit link (should just be appending to the url in #ca-edit)

you might also be able to modify that filter to only block when ?veaction=edit is in the url too