[Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

[Stevie Benton]

Excellent job, James and team! I hope you don't mind me sharing the details
on the WMUK blog.

Thanks,

Stevie

On 12 December 2012 10:34, Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looks great! Congrats James and team!
>
>                                           Patricio
>
> 2012/12/12 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>:
> > On Wednesday, 12 December 2012, Bishakha Datta wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm just imagining how much easier it will be to do wiki workshops and
> >> outreach sessions as this develops further.
> >>
> >> YES! When this is the default for new users we're going to have to
> > re-write all the training manuals to remove many of the current
> > wikimarkup-intensive sections. Being able to simplify the instructional
> > guides is a very good problem to have :-) It will certainly
> > radically decrease the amount of time we need in training workshops to
> get
> > people to a stage where they can go by themselves.
> >
> > -Liam
> >
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