All,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-08-22_.28…
about
progress on VisualEditor:
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf14 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14> on
Thursday 22 August, though many of the changes were made available ahead of
this release. In the week since 1.22wmf13, the team worked on fixing bugs
and stability and performance improvements to VisualEditor, with some minor
work on features.
You can now add and edit <u> (underline), <sub> (subscript), and <sup>
(superscript)
annotations in experimental mode on
MediaWiki.org (bugs
51609<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51609>
, 51612 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51612> and
51611<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51611>
respectively).
These, along with the annotations for <s> (strikethrough) and <u> (underline)
which were released last week will be made available on all wikis once the
re-design of the toolbar is complete, to avoid them dominating the buttons
that are more normally used.
In terms of bugs, firstly, file inclusions which have empty |link= parameters
are no longer corrupted on save (bug
51963<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51963>)3>).
A number of issues related to the undo and redo buttons and keyboard
shortcuts not applying to the document were fixed (bug
52113<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52113>)3>).
Inserting an existing reference into the first paragraph in Firefox no
longer inserts it at the start of the document, but where your cursor was (bug
52159 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52159>). Finally,
after a significant re-write of some of the core of VisualEditor, a number
of bugs related to text input and selection in various scripts and using
various Input Method Editors (IMEs) were fixed (bugs
50105<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50105> for
Arabic; 50346 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50346> for
Kannada; 50631 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50631> for
Korean; 51477 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51477> for
Devanagari; and 52716
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52716> for
Japanese).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf14
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14/Changelog#…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&am…
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester