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Specific issues
| Topic | Summary | Bugs | Threads |
|---|---|---|---|
| <nowiki/> tags | Unwanted <nowiki/> sometimes inserted | Parsoid's Nowiki project | Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive_2013_7#Changing link text often results in bad code, wrong links and unmatched </nowki>s
Edit Filter 550 detects recent changes adding these |
| Templates | All templates that use parameters need to have Wikipedia:VisualEditor/TemplateData added to allow proper (assisted) use with VE. There are 505k tempates[1], so there's work to do. | T52182 problem with nested templates | |
| Parser functions | T52855 problem with parser functions seen as templates | ||
| {{Reflist}} | The contents of the reflist template does not auto-update during an editing session, unlike the contents of a plain <references/> list | T52769 displayed reflist not updated | WP:VE/F#Reference Issues: Omnibus Edition |
| Other tags (extension specific, ...) | Not supported: <timeline>, <poem>, <kbd>, <imagemap>, listing, wikidata, <templatedata>, <categorytree>, <inputbox>, <section> | T48803 tracker bug for extension plugins, allow plain text editing of extension tags (unlikely to be fixed as depends on the Parsoid parser) | WP:VisualEditor/Feedback#General editor for extension tags |
| TemplateData | Overloaded templates like {{coord}} can't be easily documented or used. | T54250 (WONTFIX) | |
| Dialog boxes | On small screens or when the display is zoomed in, the dialog boxes for transclusions and page settings hide all article content and cannot be shrunk or dragged. This makes it difficult to refer to the text when editing templates and categories (e.g., to look at the birth date when adding a category for the birth date). | T51969 |