Hey all you beautiful Wiki contributors! TL;DR: Editing our Wiki Pages from Old Reddit no longer updates the page on the latest version of Reddit and the Mobile App. I noticed a potential problem after I had updated the Upcoming Releases Wiki page yesterday for the This Week In KPOP post. Checked in with the rest of the Mod Team and they confirmed they were seeing the same issue. So I went hunting to see if other subreddits were experiencing this and I believe I have figured it out. If you weren't aware, as part of Reddit's general design overhaul during this past year they have been working on overhauling the Wiki Page tools in hopes of adding more functionality and making it more accessible to less-experienced Redditors. We saw this as a positive and signed up to participate in the testing process early on. But we have a giant and sprawling Wiki so we wouldn't be brought in until some months after the first testers. Admins informed us a few days ago that the new Wiki experience was launching for us. I poked around on it a little bit, but hadn't done much more yet. Yesterday, I updating streaming links in our Upcoming Releases page. I continue to be an Old Reddit user, so that's how I view/edit the Wikis. But I figured I should switch over to the latest version of Reddit to see how the new Wiki design looked. That's when I noticed the edits I just made had disappeared. Not only that, but the last edit that showed on the latest Reddit was about 4 days ago while Old Reddit showed multiple edits from other volunteers since then. Uh oh. Checked in with the team. They saw the same. Just now I found someone asking about the same problem about a month ago in r/ModSupport in the context of a subreddit that was in the earlier new Wiki testing phase. An Admin replied with the following: Hey, there! I asked around and there were some changes to the wiki system. New wiki entries need to be created on the new UI. Wiki entries created on old Reddit after this change went into effect will not transfer over. Apologies for the confusion and any frustration! So that appears to be what's happening. The Wiki pages can be edited on Old Reddit, but those edits will only display on Old Reddit. They won't show on the latest version of Reddit or on the Mobile App. This is super frustrating for a couple of reasons. One is that we recommended using Old to some of our volunteers over the last year as the Wiki pages were glitchy while Reddit was changing a lot and Old was more reliable. The other is that the new Wiki page tools don't appear to have any Markdown functionality. There is only the new Editor. For those of us that have been using Old Reddit and editing Wikis for ages, this is much less flexible to edit and is a whole new system to learn. I'm going to contact the Admin who started our test just to confirm this is all true, but it seemed important to announce this to our volunteers as soon as possible. We'll tag a bunch of our regulars down in comments to bring your attention here. Feel free to ask questions, commisserate, and figure things out together. I was going to try to update the June Upcoming Releases page using the most updated Old Reddit version and realized it might literally take me an hour or two to do this with the new Editor. Looks a bit nightmarish. And I can imagine this will be similarly frustrating to those of you who have been comfortably editing from Old Reddit for years. We'll try to keep you updated. For now, it's possible the best thing to do if you're about to edit a Wiki page is check the history on Old Reddit and compare to the latest Reddit design. If all the edits are on Old, keep using Old unless you're willing to use the new Editor to make a big update that matches Old. Otherwise, maybe hold off updating anything until we have a better plan. Thanks all! submitted by /u/alleybetwixt [link] [comments]
