Very excited about this Yaron. Thank you!
-Rich
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From: MediaWiki-l [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yaron
Koren
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 8:29 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] New extension, VEForAll, enables VisualEditor for use in other
textareas
Hi everyone,
I'm very excited to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension:
VEForAll. Its name stands for "VisualEditor For All", and it provides something
that some people have been asking about for a long time - a way to incorporate the
VisualEditor interface into textarea inputs other than the one in the standard
VisualEditor tab.
The VEForAll extension works by providing a JavaScript function that, when called on a
textarea input, adds the VisualEditor interface to it (if the VisualEditor extension is
already installed). So the extension itself doesn't actually do anything - instead, it
provides an API for other extensions to use. At the moment, two extensions can already
make use of VEForAll if it's there: CommentStreams and Page Forms. (You need to use
the latest version of either extension to get it working.)
You can read more about VEForAll, and download it, here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VEForAll
This extension has five credited authors, although most of the credit goes to the first
two: Pierre Boutet and Clément Flipo of the consulting company Dokit, and the site
Wikifab. I feel like I should give both the company and site a plug, in their honor:
http://www.dokit.io/en/about-us
https://wikifab.org/wiki/Accueil
Please feel free to try out the extension, and let us know on the talk page if you run
into any problems.
-Yaron
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