Clarification: I see that https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_... says in the text, “First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012”. However, https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_... doesn’t include those caveats. As someone who’s accustomed to reading highly colorful charts and audit reports with carefully chosen visual flags, I find it disturbing to have green checks by an item that’s still a work in progress and months away from completion. I would like to suggest that a more cautionary visual symbol such as the words “in progress” would have been more appropriate.
From: En Pine Sent: Saturday, 03 March, 2012 21:42 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board, esp. Visual Editor
I appreciated this presentation. It raised many good points about successes and challenges. However, I’d like to know why the visual editor appears to be checked as a finished item in this presentation, in the slides https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_... and https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_.... This is inconsistent with the latest information that I’m able to find about the visual editor. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor#Status says that the visual editor isn't scheduled for an initial rollout until June. Sorry to be critical, but I get the impression that this presentation counted the chickens several months before they've hatched.
Pine