Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27080627-20161013174107/@comment-24473195-20161025102402

Smashix wrote: Should a wiki user really be expected to implement bug fixes? Even if it's really basic stuff, I'm here as a fan trying to write about my favorite game, not as a developer (although I am one). Much of the feedback and my search for help really makes me question if Wikia is a mature enough product. It's not intuitive and some really basic things are not in place. I'm not sure I would choose it if I had to start over with another Wikia. It's a bit late to switch platforms now, but color me unimpressed! I'm describing a bug as "an unexpected defect, fault, flaw, or imperfection"  whereas some of the things you describe are deliberate design.

The pop-up dialogs when entering specific characters is deliberate design actually requested by some users, regardless of whether other users agree with it or not. Everything else included in the main post may possibly be software defects depending on what you did to trigger them.

So to answer your question:

Should a wiki user really be expected to implement bug fixes?

Yes, if they believe it is important enough to be fixed quickly, such is the nature of open source software. For each one you notice there are hundreds if not thousands more mediawiki / VisualEditor  higher priority software defects.

As a sidenote, some of these software defects are actually fixed in recent VisualEditor versions, Developers just need to upgrade it. It doesn't seem straight forward to do so, probably because some fixes are in MediaWiki core, and Wikis here use a considerably older forked (altered) version.