[Mediawiki-l] Please help testing the newly developed usability improvement features

[Naoko Komura]

Dear MW developers and users: 

Wikipedia Usability Initiative team is preparing to release the first 
set of usability improvement 
<http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases#Acai> in the upcoming MW 
release.  For those of you have already given great feedback in response 
to the announcement in the tech blog last week, thank you.  In addition 
to staging in five languages in the prototype site 
<http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prototype>, the new features are 
now enabled on test.wikipedia.org.  New features are default in 
prototypes, but they need to be manually enabled in preference for 
test.wikipedia.org.  One-step opt-in/out switch is on its way, and will 
be enabled on test.wikipedia.org later.  In the mean time, if you want 
to try out the new skin and the tool bar, please go to "Appearance" and 
select "Vector", and go to "Editing" and select "Enable enhanced editing 
toolbar". 

Known issues are problems supporting RTL for IE5-7 and FF1-2.  We are 
still addressing the issues carefully so that we do not break the 
compatibility of other browsers.  The current compatibility status can 
be found here 
<http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Releases/Acai/Compatibility_Matrix>. 

It would be great if you can check it out and give us more feedback.  We 
are gathering feedback in this page 
<http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prototype>, but if you find 
something horribly broken, please file them in bugzilla 
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi> directly. 

Thanks for you your help in advance. 

- Naoko

Usability Initiative <http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>

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