Hi folks,
We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis.
Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their feedback.
This first worldwide release includes these features: * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7) * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3) * Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4) * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - see below) * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see below) (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it was already available, but not enabled by default.)
We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10)
Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world.
Enjoy,
Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams
(1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(2) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(3) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
(4) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
(5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General
(6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
(7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December.)
(8) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
(9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
(10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the quotes).
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
Awesome news everyone, I'm extremely proud of what everyone was able to do it such as short period of time. I think Beta Features will really improve or change management plan for future projects. Thanks again for everyone's hard work and creativity.
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmermanhttps://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi folks,
We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis.
Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their feedback.
This first worldwide release includes these features:
- Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7)
- Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3)
- Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4)
- VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 -
see below)
- VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see
below) (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it was already available, but not enabled by default.)
We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10)
Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world.
Enjoy,
Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams
(1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(2) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(3) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
(4) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
(5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General
(6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
(7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December.)
(8) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
(9) Report a Bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
(10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the quotes).
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation
On 11/21/2013 06:31 PM, Fabrice Florin wrote:
We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
This is great. I've enabled several on English Wikipedia, and I look forward to trying them.
Congratulations to everyone who helped with this.
Matt Flaschen
Hi folks,
We'd like to invite you to join our discussion of Beta Features (1), which we just deployed worldwide yesterday.
Our office hours IRC chat starts in a half-hour, today at 18:00 UTC. (2)
If you cannot join this chat, we invite you to try out Beta Features and share your feedback on one of the pages below (3-8)
And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely.
We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world.
Hope to speak with you soon,
Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams
(1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features
(2) Today's Office Hours IRC Chat: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
(3) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
(4) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(5) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
(6) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
(7) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General
(8) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
(9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
P.S.: If you are interested in Media Viewer, we invite you to test the new version v0.2 on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December. Please share your feedback about this new version on this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer