Topic on VisualEditor/Feedback

Hi everyone. I think the portal page needs a screenshot, and I propose this one (of the VisualEditor being used to change the indentation level of a bulleted list) as the one to use, but I am hoping for better suggestions.

I know what VisualEditor does, and you know what VisualEditor does, but unless I am missing something, there does not currently exist a resource for everyone else which explains (in a picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words kind of way), "OK, but what does it do?"

Just a bit of background on that: I routinely try to pitch MediaWiki as a knowledge management platform for (non-computationally-focused) colleagues in research, and I would like to have something to point to to say "look, you don't have to write in wikitext!" However: VisualEditor has no screenshot, VisualEditor/Portal has no screenshot, and Extension:VisualEditor has no screenshot. There is an explanatory blog post on blog.mediawiki.org, which is referred to by one of the aforementioned, but that's from 2012, and I assume that much has changed since then.

Thank you.

c:Category:VisualEditor_GIFs are also old, but you might find some useful images there, too.

Table editing is a particular pain point in wikitext, so you might like this:

Oh, that's another good one, thanks!

Nice! Before I disappoint myself: this will still be possible for wikitext editors, by switching to VE mode to add the column, then switch back after it's added, right? Mathglot (talk) 21:07, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, Mathglot [I'd like to indent this reply but can’t], I have done that.

The only limitation is that VE uses one-cell-per-line style for wikitables, so if you’re trying to do a compact one-row-per-line style then you have to work purely in wikitext.