Forum:Forum Bugs

A Tale of Three Editors
There are actually three editors available for Fandom wikis, which is part of what made the problems we have seen with the Page-by-page discussion forums to confusing, to me at least. These are: The Visual Editor (VE) is the newest one. It seems to work quite well and it seems to be used by most newcomers since it is, I believe, the initial default editor. I don't use it however because it didn't exist when I started on the Girl Genius wiki and I have gotten used to the Source editor. It is also not available on forum pages.
 * VisualEditor
 * Classic rich-text editor
 * Source editor

The Classic rich-text editor was the first stab by Wikia at making a visual editor. It has some annoying shortcomings, the worst of which was that it couldn't be used on complex pages, such as the Chronology, so I stopped even trying to use it after a while. This is the editor that initially comes up for most newcomers on the forum pages.

The Source editor allows you to edit Wikia markup only. It provides some tools and syntax coloring.

-- William Ansley (talk) 22:47, February 20, 2018 (UTC)