Wikitech-ambassadors May 2013

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VisualEditor fortnightly update - 2013-04-29 (MW 1.22wmf3)

by James Forrester

Hello all, As before, the regular update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-04-29_.28MW_1.22wmf…> about progress on the VisualEditor (sorry I've missed the last couple of these): VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 branch deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf3> on Monday 29 April. In the two weeks since 1.22wmf2, the team have worked on deploying the VisualEditor opt-in alpha to more wikis, and on the new features for VisualEditor's wider launch as the default way users will edit our wikis: Categories, Templates, References and Images. Fixed a number of bugs and regressions, including the 'bold' button not allowing you to un-bold some text (47680<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47680>), fixing the link inspector throwing out "undefined" in some cases and other issues (47413 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47413>), cleaning up the deployment including making the feedback link language-variable and having VE allow users preferences on non-deployed wikis (42936 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42936>), avoiding a Firefox bug where shift-right caused characters to be deleted ( 47711 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47711>), fixing a failure to let users convert between paragraphs and headings when next to an inline node (41203 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41203>), and changing the integration so that the VisualEditor is now the editor behind the "Edit" tab (47396<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47396> ). Additionally, we adjusted our code that faces Parsoid<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> to adapt to changes there and not fail when editing non-current pages (47434<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47434>), fixed a problem of blank paragraphs getting inserted in some cases (46800<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46800>), worked around a bug in jQuery that meant that references and other tags were getting corrupted (47417<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47417> and later 47737 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47737>), avoided leaving trailing paragraphs when inserting content at the start or end of a paragraph (46799<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46799>), made some speed improvements in the editing surface and the back-end (47343<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47343>), and informed the user when a failure happens on serialisation (47581<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47581> ). In experimental code that is not live on the Wikimedia servers yet, on images (37870 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37870>) we added initial support for displaying and editing inline and thumbnail images, resizing of images, selection of images and other generated content with cursor keys (38129<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38129>), and drag-and-drop relocation of images and other nodes. For references ( 39599 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39599>) we added some infrastructure support for references. For templates (39598<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39598>) we ensured that templates re-serialise to their original HTML if unchanged ( 47394 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47394>). A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf3 changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf3/Changelog#VisualEditor>, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status…> . If you have any questions, please do ask. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Wikitech-ambassadors May 2013