All,
As before, the regular
update<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-10-03_.28M…
about
progress on VisualEditor (a little late this week; my apologies!):
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf20 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf20> on
Thursday 3 October. In the week since 1.22wmf19, the team worked on fixing
bugs and stability improvements to VisualEditor.
References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug
50459 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50459>), thanks to a
major re-write of the back-end (bug
52102<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52102>)
that will help us finally provide proper copy-and-paste support in the near
future. We tweaked the wording for the warning message that appears for a
blank reference list of the default group, and no longer talk about 'the
group ""' (bug 51873
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51873>
).
Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a pawn
character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug
54791<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54791>)1>).
In Firefox, blanking the page using select-all and then delete used to
break editing; this is now fixed (bug
50947<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50947>)7>).
Generated content blocks which get re-rendered as they are updated, like
the experimental (and available on
MediaWiki.org) formula editor now
doesn't cause the inspector to judder to the begging and back when updating
the image (bug 54584 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54584>
).
There were a number of urgent fixes made to the code behind VisualEditor
during the week, to fix issues that developed. Firstly, there was a bug
that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard
away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been
selected (bug 54443 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54443>).
Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them
broke extending them in some circumstances (bug
54332<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54332>)2>).
The "page settings" dialog was broken twice, first in a way that made
removing categories impossible, though adding them worked (bug
54727<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54727>)7>),
and later entirely, though only in a development branch (bug
54928<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54928>)8>).
A broken deployment script meant that briefly VisualEditor was broken for
all Wikipedias (bug
54935<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54935>)5>).
Finally, 'snowmen' characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly-added
references, templates and other nodes (bug
54712<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712>
).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf20
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf20/Changelog#…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&…
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester