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wikEd is a full-featured, in-browser text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia and other MediaWiki edit pages (currently Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Chrome only). Features include: Pasting formatted text, e.g. from MS-Word (including tables) Converting the formatted text to wikicode; Wikicode syntax ...
The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump.
Download from here for Firefox up to 1.0.x and from here for Firefox 1.5.x. Firefox 2.0.x has spellchecking built in. These tools add an option to the browser to use an external editor on a web page textarea. Mozex. Doesn't support Mozilla on Mac; Doesn't support Firefox 1.0 as provided (see this for a workaround) Electrix. Not currently maintained
Editing Wikipedia articles using a full-fledged text editor is often more convenient than a web browser's standard text area. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially long articles), such as spell checking, search and replace, macros, syntax highlighting, and alphabetic sorting.
(See Wikipedia:MediaWiki) There have also been scripts written specifically for working with Wikipedia as well as with other MediaWiki-based sites, such as "wiki format" scripts for text editors, bots, extensions for browsers, and site tools that help with particular aspects of editing Wikipedia.
The current version of the mw:2017 wikitext editor can be seen via Beta Features at the Beta Cluster.. Create an account (do *NOT* use a password that you use anywhere else; this is one of the WMF test sites that gets the newest/most broken code, so there's always a chance of a security problem) and login.
Not only can I confirm that trying to get into VE via the link to the right of the article title doesn't work (Mac, Firefox, both latest versions), but if one opens the lead section using the edit source link, then tries to switch to VE (via the pencil icon), the resulting dialog is broken (only two options - cancel and discard changes).
Safari (web browser) – built-in from Mac OS X 10.3, available as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.2; SeaMonkey – open source Internet application suite; Shiira – open source; Sleipnir – free, by Fenrir Inc; Tor (anonymity network) – free, open source; Torch (web browser) – free, by Torch Media Inc. Vivaldi – free, proprietary ...