User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-13918697-20141028074944/@comment-13918697-20141031013614

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WTF and who the hell are you to create a test page with my name? Take it down immediately.

FYI, my preferred editor is set to "No Preferences".

FYI, I have been in private communication with a member of Wikia staff. Quote from private email:

"The Wikia Labs preference currently only controls the default editor for logged in users who have their editor preference set to 'No preference'. We are currently migrating users away from this preference to a more explicit choice."

My first comment re No Preferences:

"The "No Preferences" choice is going to be eliminated. Which means that the first screen you will get when you edit a page will be either Visual or Source to work from. They won't be available in conjunction."

Get a dictionary and look up what the word conjunction means.

My entire commentary has been about the choice of having BOTH the Source Editor and Visual Editor available in conjunction when editing. If my terminology has not been exact, the point I've made has been.

Those Source and Visual tabs on the top/right that let you flow from one editing screen to the other under "No Preferences" are being eliminated for one, single preferred editing screen: Visual or Source. In the new visual editor -- the screen every anon editor now gets and the screen registered users will get if they don't select Source as the first editor screen that pops open -- you now have to click on an anonymous, nondescript button in the visual editor toolbar in order to switch to the source editor screen.

Nowhere in the new visual editor screen does "Source Editor" appear on it, up-front, for everyone to see and select. Why? Because everyone is supposed to know that the Source Editor is hidden inside the toolbar within the three-horizontal-bars-with-downward-arrow button. The same button containing Page settings, Categories, Help, and Keyboard shortcuts tools. And when an editor selects to switch to the Source Editor, only four indicators appear on it: Top-Left = Source Editor, Top-Right = X, Bottom/Left = Formatting help, Bottom/Right = Apply changes.

Where is the return to "Visual Editor" selection on the source screen? Oh! That's right! You have to select "Apply changes" to return to it.

This is a hurdle that has been created in terms of editing quickly and effortlessly. Why has Wikia chosen to hide the Source Editor? Because sticking it inside a button without indicating that it's in there is, in effect, hiding it.

I don't know why you've grown a hard-on over my opinions, but as far as I'm concerned you crossed the line in the sand when you created that test page using my name. This is the end of my dealing with you regarding anything you have to say in this matter.