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In a separate tab, open the same page / section you have been editing, and open the editor there Paste the copied text into the editing interface in the new tab, overwriting the existing content If your clipboard size was exceeded, this will require multiple copypastes of sequential text blocks, until the full content is pasted into the new tab
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 ...
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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.
Maintenance tags are routinely added to articles that have one or more deficiencies. These can include cleanup requirements, disputes, and references.Maintenance tags are important because they categorise articles according to the deficiencies that need attention, which allows interested editors and maintenance WikiProjects such as the League of Copyeditors to find and fix them.
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).
But there are still the chapters "Using vim or another console editor" and "Using vim on Mac OS X" that do not belong here. Those should be removed. If someone needs the information there, please copy it to some vim specific site now.--PauliKL 16:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Please note that any feedback left at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback is not actively monitored by Wikimedia Foundation staff. Ways to get help. The MediaWiki VisualEditor feedback page is for feedback relating to VisualEditor. For general help with Wikipedia see Help:Contents and the Wikipedia:Help desk. For feedback regarding a specific ...