Board Thread:Bloons Wiki and BTD News/@comment-4795804-20170407153331

Hi all,

Preferred editor
As you may know, VisualEditor is the default editor for new Fandom users. Using the VisualEditor is usually more comfortable for users, because they simply edit a Rich text and they don't have to care about the source code. Sadly, the VisualEditor has also a lot of side effects which is mainly an adding of unneeded and excess HTML formatting, or contrarily, unwanted removing of text.

I don't expect that occasional editors will change anything on their habits, on the other hand I believe that a lot of regular and core editors can become much better if they start to use the classic editor (or even the source editor) where the users have a better control over what they are doing.

To use the classic editor, when you are on a page you want to edit, click the dropdown menu next to the "Edit" button, and then click the "Classic editor" text. You can also change the default editor in: Preferences &rarr; Editing &rarr; Editing experience &rarr; Preferred editor

Sandbox
To make learning of the source code easier, editors have their own place where they can experiment. If you go to your profile page, you have a new bookmark called "Sandbox" there, where you can perform these experiments. Just please, try not to spam the editing history, and don't do a lot of edits in short time. You can always preview your changes to see the result. To learn at least basics of source code, see Wiki markup.

Private vs public userpages
All userspages and their subpages (including the sandbox pages) are basically protected on Bloons Wiki, so that only an owner of the page can edit it. If you want to allow all registered editors to be able to edit your userpage or sandbox page, or any other its subpage, then just put  template on that page, you can also specify what you allow the editing for by putting a reason there:  . 