Greetings all mobilers and mobile enthusiasts,
The Mobile Web team is very close to finishing out our epic multi-quarter collaboration with the Editing team and releasing a mobile-friendly VE experience for tablet users (yay)!
The two teams (Mobile Web & Editing) have pledged to close out the remaining high priority bugs and feature enhancements in the coming 2-3 weeks, with the goal of pushing VE to stable on *July 31*. This means that users editing on wikis that have VE as the default editing experience (projects like French and Portuguese Wikipedias, among others) will be sent to VE editing by default, and users editing on wikis that have VE as an opt-in (like English Wikipedia, among others) will be sent to the wikitext editor but will have the option to switch to VE editing within the editing workflow (a one-time sticky preference once they make the switch).
Once VE is live for tablet users, the Mobile Web team will help triage and fix any remaining bugs, but the product roadmap for mobile VE will migrate to the hands of the Editing team – so new feature requests and UX enhancements will need to be run by James & the rest of the Editing team :)
Hang in there, folks – we're almost there!