TL;DR: VisualEditor is going to be enabled to Page: pages today Wednesday. It's still very buggy, use at our own risks.
Hello everyone,
Just an email to warn you that an early version of the Page: pages support for the VisualEditor is going to be deployed on todayWednesday, 29 June. It still contains a lot of bugs that should be fixed in the following weeks.
Some known issues:
- The switching from Wikitext editor to VisualEditor is still buggy (only content of the page body is kept and set into the header in the VE interface).
- On loading of page which latest modification is before tomorrow Wednesday there are artefacts on saving. We have made a change in the Parsoid parser to make VisualEditor work but we have not been able to purge the Parsoid cache. It leads to artefact added to the wikitext on saving and usually to the merge of the footer in the body.
- When HTML is not balanced in each section (header/body/footer) e.g. when you have "<div style="color:blue;">" in the header and "</div>" in the footer, the VisualEditor breaks the page (usually you get "<div style="color:blue;"></div>" in the header and nothing in the footer). This issue won't be fixed anytime soon but we plan to provide efficient ways to do styling on the Page: pages body (and probably also on the Header/Footer).
- The loading of VisualEditor with ?veaction=edit in the UI often fails (code review in progress)
- When creating a new page the text layer included in the PDF/DjVu file is not loaded (code review in progress)
- The proofreading quality selector is not very understandable and should be redesigned.
Please report any other issue on Phabricator [1] with as projects both "ProofreadPage" and "VisualEditor"
Thomas
PS: feel free to copy/past this email in your local Scriptorium.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
Hi from Wikimania everyone! Wikisource hacking is carrying on apace here.
I just thought I'd mention after this morning's session that (thanks to
Bodhisattwa Mandal) the Bengali Wikisource is now listed in the
Wikisource category browser tool:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-cat-browser/?lang=bn
On which topic, there are quite a few category loops in some languages,
such as this:
[0] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Biografie
[1] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Letteratura
[2] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Letteratura-V
[3] => Categoria:Letteratura-V -
Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico
[4] => Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Letteratura
[5] => Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Testi_delle_arti_in_ordine_alfabetico
[6] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
[7] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti - Categoria:Arti
[8] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti -
Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
[9] => Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti - Categoria:Arti
[10] => Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti -
Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
(Just saying...)
:-)
Hi all,
I've been attempting to get my head around Wikidata and how
Wikisource-works' data is stored there, and have made a simple little
search thingo:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search/
It just searches title and author at the moment, but I'm going to extend
it for dates, genres/subjects, and other properties. There are also
plenty of ways in which it's not quite working properly at the moment,
I'm sure. :-)
—Sam.