[Foundation-l] Visual Editor Prototype

Wed Dec 14 04:46:35 UTC 2011

The first link to the blog is not working. Here's one that works: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/help-test-the-first-visual-editor-developer-prototype/
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> From: liamwyatt at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:34:56 +0000
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Visual Editor Prototype
> 
> For those who've not seen the announcement, the WMF tech team have launched
> the first prototype of the visual editor, "perhaps the most challenging
> technical project ever undertaken in the history of MediaWiki
> development.":
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/help-test-the-first-visual-editor-developer-prototype/Congratulations
> to everyone who's been working on this so far - more power
> to you!
> 
> The Economist has already picked this up and called it "the most
> significant change in Wikipedia’s short history."
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/12/changes-wikipedia
> 
> You can play with the new system in the sandbox here:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox
> As mentioned in the announcement, it's by no-means fully featured (doesn't
> yet allow editing of templates/tables, saving edits etc.) and they're
> looking to June 2012 for first production use at scale. Feedback left via
> that sandbox gets published on MediaWiki.org here
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Feedback
> 
> [Sorry if this was already announced on this list! It's just such
> significant and unambiguously good news that I wanted to shout it from the
> rooftops.]
> 
> -Liam
> Peace, love & metadata
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