On 02/23/2015 12:33 AM, Samir Elsharbaty wrote:
Hello everyone,
Seems that there is a great interest in having a tutorial for the VE especially for WEP workshops. However, as a volunteer Wikipedian, I have always looked at it as a tool that could help with copyediting and fixing typos after a long editing session for example or that would help a new user make a quick change without a need to master the editing techniques. I would have thought like Filip that Visual editor wouldn't need a tutorial. It's just like social media websites that people work on directly and learn by practice. Anyway, sorry Filip, seems the majority looks at it differently.
Oh, I don't mind there being tutorials.
But since VE still isn't used very much in Serbian Wikipedia [1], we at Wikimedia Serbia haven't started integrating it into our Education program.
[1] it's still on an opt-in basis (you have to enable it explicitly in settings) and it still doesn't work well with our conversion system -- Serbian has two script variants (Latin and Cyrillic) and we have automatic conversion between the two built into MediaWiki (that's also enabled for Kazakh, Chinese Wikipedia and some others multi-script languages). There's additional wikisyntax involved (like tags that specify the text that is exempted from script conversion) and it still hasn't been integrated into VE, so that's why it's still not very useful for us.
Cheers, Filip