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Current editing software on Wikimedia wikis
Editing tool Screenshot Year Platform Notes
the default MediaWiki editor (2003 wikitext editor), which is an HTML ‎<textarea>
👁 Screenshot of the HTML textarea
2003 Desktop and mobile This does not have a toolbar. It can be seen when JavaScript is disabled, or when "Enable the editing toolbar" is disabled in Preferences.
WikiEditor (2010 wikitext editor)
👁 A screenshot of WikiEditor
2010 Desktop This can be seen when "Enable the editing toolbar" is enabled in Preferences.
VisualEditor
👁 Screenshot showing VisualEditor's visual mode
2012 Desktop and mobile A rich-text WYSIWYG editing system
2017 wikitext editor
👁 Screenshot of VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode
2017 Desktop A mode within Extension:VisualEditor to edit wiki markup.
Proofread Page
👁 Image
2006 Desktop Used at the Wikisources
WikEd
👁 Screenshot of wikEd
2006 Desktop An entirely volunteer-supported wikitext editor. This is generally run as a gadget or user script, but it is run as an extension on some non-Wikimedia wikis.
CodeMirror
👁 Screenshot of CodeMirror
2017 Desktop and mobile This is used inside WikiEditor or the 2017 editor when syntax highlighting is enabled (👁 Image
). As of MediaWiki 1.43, CodeMirror can also be used as a standalone editor.
CodeEditor
👁 Screenshot of the code editor
2011 Desktop This is used for editing JavaScript and other code pages.
MobileFrontend's wikitext editor
👁 Screenshot of wikitext editing on Mobile Web
2013 Mobile
ContentTranslation
👁 Screenshot of ContentTranslation's editor
2014 Desktop
Structured Discussions (previously known as Flow)
👁 Screenshot of a comment and the beginning of a reply to it in Structured Discussions
2013 Desktop and mobile Structured Discussions supports wikitext and visual modes.

On Wikimedia wikis, this editor is being phased out. As of March 2025 it remains available on four publicly editable sites.

DiscussionTools editors (New Topic Tool and Reply Tool)
👁 Image
👁 Image
2020 Desktop and mobile An inline form for starting new talk page discussions and responding to talk page comments. It is equipped with both Visual and Source modes.
Editor in the Android app
👁 Screenshot of the editing interface on an Android phone
2014 Mobile
Editor in the iOS app
👁 Screenshot of the editing interface on an iPhone
2014 Mobile
TemplateData editor
👁 Image
2014 Desktop
Wikivoyage Listing Editor
👁 Image
2013 Desktop Specialized JavaScript-based editing tool for inserting one of several templates at Wikivoyage
Convenient Discussions
👁 Image
2020 Desktop A volunteer-developed tool for discussions. Available as a gadget on some wikis.

Former

Former editing software on Wikimedia wikis
Editing tool Screenshot Years Platform Notes
The 2006 JavaScript "classic" editor (2006 wikitext editor), Manual:EditPage.php
👁 Screenshot of 2006 wikitext editor
2006–2018 Desktop This was seen when the "showtoolbar" preference was enabled from 2006–2010. After that, it was only shown to users who disabled the "enhanced-toolbar" (2010 editor) preference. This editor was removed in MediaWiki 1.32. A similar toolbar is available as a volunteer-supported local gadget at some wikis.
MobileFrontend's original wikitext editor 2012–2014 Mobile This was a mobile-specific set of modifications to the 2003 desktop wikitext editor.


See also