Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-5275700-20131014191604/@comment-5275700-20131016210451

Starfleet Academy wrote:

I edited the text in the post slightly. "link double brackets and apostrophes" was a typo (should have been "like", though "link" still made sense, funnily) and as been changed to "such as double brackets and apostrophes". Wikitext support was not part of the collaborative work that's brought us to this point, and so Wikia needs to sort out the details of how that will be implemented. More to come in that area.
 * I find this somewhat disturbing. The old visual editor "supported" all(?) Wikitext chucked into the edit form, it just couldn't edit what was already there. Why this can VisualEditor not do? Hmm?

We expect to eventually return the state where ?action=edit will open your preferred editor, but with the beta release there will be a period where the other parameter is needed.
 * I believe this answers my question above, in all likelihood. It better anyway. I don't want all redlinks becoming ?veaction=edit&redlink=1 !