All,
As before, the regular
update<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-09-26_.28M…
about
progress on VisualEditor:
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 branch
deployment <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf19> on Thursday
26 September. In the week since 1.22wmf18, the team worked on fixing bugs
and stability improvements to VisualEditor.
You can now drag-and-drop elements other than just images - references,
reference lists, templates and other "nodes" should all be moveable with
the mouse. Blanking the contents of a heading, pre-formatted block or other
formatting block now deletes the block rather than leaving it empty, which
is consistent with how OpenOffice and Google Docs behave (bug
50254<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50254>
).
The page settings dialog was briefly broken in Firefox but now is restored (bug
54322 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54322>). A bug that
meant that unnamed references got their names corrupted on using
VisualEditor has also been fixed (bug
54351<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54351>)1>).
A regression in copy-and-paste which meant that copy-and-paste stopped
working outside VE even once it was closed was corrected (bug
54375<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54375>)5>),
and the functionality was fixed to allow pasting images in Firefox (bug
54377 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54377>).
Links are no longer possible to be applied to images, as this isn't
possible to represent in wikitext (bug
53151<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53151>)1>).
A bug which means that VisualEditor selected both the "slug" (blank line)
and the infobox at the start of an article on initialisation was fixed (bug
54446 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54446>).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf19
changelog<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf19/Changelog#V…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's
list<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&b…
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester