Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-29522542-20160918153626/@comment-24473195-20160918162646

You can almost always directly trigger VisualEditor by appending ?veaction=edit to the URL  on wikis were it is disabled.

VE might not work in a specific community due to the fact that it is not currently compatible with all languages. This is also true of the source editor, e.g. mixing vertical writing with horizontal writing in the "source editor" is not properly supported in most browsers.

The whole wikitext markup purity debate is a bit like arguing between using cursive  or "print"  writing. It is a complete non-issue for readers, and is just a pointless debate considering that it can be transformed automatically.