All,
My weekly
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-09-05_.28…
about
progress on VisualEditor:
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf16 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf16> on
Thursday 5 September. In the week since 1.22wmf15, the team worked on some
interface changes, fixing bugs, and stability & performance improvements to
VisualEditor.
In new features, we have changed the toolbar to be simpler, shorter, and to
have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. At least
initially, we have moved all but the most basic tools into a single
drop-down, including inserting media, templates and other transclusions,
and references & reference lists. As part of this, the controls to add <u>
(underline), <sub> (subscript), and <sup> (superscript), <s>
(strikethrough)
and <u> (underline) annotations to text will now be available to all users
in the drop-down.
We also added a set of keyboard shortcuts for setting the block formatting:
Ctrl+0 sets a block as a paragraph; Ctrl+1 up to Ctrl+6 sets it as a
Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl+7 sets
it as
pre-formatted (bug
33512<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33512>)2>).
The help/'beta' menu now exposes the build number next to the "Leave
feedback" link, so users can give better reports about issues they
encounter (bug 53050 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53050>
).
When inserting a new link into a blank location, we now additionally
suggest lower-case link anchors as well as the upper-case equivalent if
you've typed that in, so typing in "iPhone" will prompt "iPhone"
as well as
"IPhone" (bug 50452
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50452>).
Inserting media files when some content is selected no longer replaces the
content, but puts the media item at the end of the selection instead (bug
52460 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52460>). Inserting a
link, reference or media file will now put the cursor after the new content
again (bug 53560 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53560>).
In the reference dialog, the 'Use existing reference' button is now
disabled on pages which don't yet have a reference (bug
51848<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51848>)8>).
Newly-added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be
saved before they can be re-used (bugs
51689<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51689>
and 52000 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52000>). The
template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both
parameter name and label (bug
51670<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51670>
).
We fixed a few errors with copy and paste; copying over nodes (like
references or templates) no longer inserts additional newlines on paste (bug
53364 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53364>), and if you
copied an item and then changed it, or pasted it and changed the copy, you
would get the changed item (and not what you copied) on the next paste (bug
52271 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52271>). The names of
languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings
dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug
53503<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53503>
).
Finally, our Google Summer of Code students neared completion of their
work. The Math and SyntaxHighlight extension editors have both made
excellent process, and the team hosted in San Francisco Moriel
Schottlender<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mooeypoo>oo>,
lead on the tool for setting text language details, for in-depth
discussions of how we might improve the back-end to support the tool better.
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf16
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf16/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