Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-06-13_.28…
about
progress on the VisualEditor (these are now weekly):
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf7 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf7> on Thursday
13 June. In the week since 1.22wmf6, the team worked on finishing the new
features ahead of VisualEditor's launch as the default way users will edit
our wikis in beta.
The most noticeable change for users is that *you can now insert images and
other media items* from the local wiki and Commons - they default to
right-floated thumbnailed images with no caption set. Images will also now
appear "correctly", positioned in the normal places when editing. We will
make it possible to set the caption, as well as convert images from
thumbnails to inline or floating on the other side, in the coming week. We
also changed the "Save page" workflow to no longer require users to view a
wikitext diff before saving (bug
49258<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49258>)8>),
and removed the 'alpha' notice, replacing it with a more subtle beta label (bug
48428 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48428>). Work
continued on inserting and editing Templates and References, the other
two critical areas ahead of the release , which we hope to make
available in the next week or so.
We fixed some bugs relating to support for multi-byte Unicode characters
used by some languages (bug
49246<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49246>
and 48630 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48630>) and some
tweaks to the category setting interface released last week (bug
48555<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48555>
, bug 48555 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48556> and bug
48565 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48565>). HTML
comments and elements that have no contents like some <span>s will now not
be silently dropped when editing (bug
48605<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48605>)5>).
You can now use the forwards and back buttons on your browser with
VisualEditor as you would expect (bug
43844<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43844>
).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf7
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf7/Changelog#V…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&am…
.
Ahead of the normal schedule, this will be pushed to all wikis where it is
enabled later today. If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester