One of the pain points we're seeing is that disabling VisualEditor is cumbersome. Even though there's now a user preference to disable the software, going to [[Special:Preferences]] is disruptive to user workflow.

James and I discussed the possibility of adding a switch to the user interface to enable or disable VisualEditor.

This switch might be located in the personal tools section, it might be a sidebar section, or it might be elsewhere. It should be viewable from ?action=view, ?action=edit, and ?veaction=edit.

This switch might affect only VisualEditor or it might affect all "beta" features deployed to Wikimedia wikis.

This switch will be available to both logged-in users and anonymous users.

I believe this is a high priority bug to address.

Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: major
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54862