Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-03-04_.28MW_1.21wmf…>
about
progress on the VisualEditor:
The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf11
branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf11> on
Monday 4 March.
In the two weeks since 1.21wmf10, the team have worked on the new features
being added for wider launch of the VisualEditor as the default way users
will edit wikis. Part of this work has been some of the last infrastructure
changes expanding the capabilities of the 'document model' module,
including landing the last of the major re-write there
(45062<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45062>).
This has also covered letting the converter work with full HTML documents
rather than just fragments and be more robust, significant fixes to bugs
around list items being merged and un-merged wrongly, better support for
'meta' nodes, fixed handling of text that in normal MediaWiki would be
auto-linked (37940 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37940>),
and better documentation
(45264<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45264> amongst
others). The user interface through a major refactor and refresh now has
access to a much more consistent set of 'widgets' for the main interface
and for items like the link inspector as well as the to-come category,
template and references dialogs which are being designed.
The 'content editable' module has improved keyboard support, fixed the
ability to add new items in a list (due to an unfortunate typo) and add new
lines in pre-formatted blocks using Shift-Enter
(45344<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45344>),
added some changes to improve issues with selection of content in the
browser (especially "backwards" selection), will now hide the 'phantom'
overlays for non-editable content blocks if the mouse leaves the page
(43461<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43461>).
Additionally, the dependency on a key library called 'rangy' was
refactored, and the broken copy-and-paste support between VisualEditor
instances was removed, in anticipation of better copy-and-paste to work
with non-VisualEditor surfaces as well.
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf11
changelog <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf11#VisualEditor>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…>
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
Hello,
This is your weekly preview of higher-risk or general "you should be
aware of" items for the slew of deployments coming in the near term.
== Next week ==
* Monday March 4: first deploy of -wmf11 to production WMF cluster
** General MediaWiki deploy schedule for reference:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…
* Wednesday March 6th: Wikidata Clients to all Wikipedias
== Near Term (Planned, may change) ==
* March 13th: Scribunto (Lua) to all Wikis
* March 27th: Wikidata phase II to Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian Wikipedias
Best,
Greg
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