"Opt-in" as in turn on the setting in your preferences, as shown at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
where the Extension:VisualEditor [1] is available on the wiki in question
(see [[Special:Version]]). I didn't dig though I would think that the list
for deployment would be in the roadmap or a close link. [2]
Regards, Billinghurst
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status
Regards, Billinghurst
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:02:35 +0100, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk>
wrote:
I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any
Wikipedia can opt
themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct?
Deryck
On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan <nasir8891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
> start the test earlier :)
>
> *
> --
> **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>
>
www.nasirkhn.com
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber
<nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de
> >wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to
> > several
> > Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
> >
> > I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan
to
> > discuss how chapters can support or
facilitate a community
> > communication
> > and feedback process in this regards.
> >
> > So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nicole Ebber
> > International Affairs
> >
> >
http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > All,
> >
> > TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week
as
> > an
> > opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about
> > this
> > and help get the software translated.
> >
> > Next week (on 25 April) we are going to deploy the alpha opt-in
version
> of
> > the VisualEditor to some non-English Wikipedias in the same way that
it
> > has been on the English Wikipedia since
December 2012.
> >
> > This will let users get familiar with the VisualEditor, give us
> > feedback
> > on what works and what is broken, and help us prioritise further work
> > ahead of the planned deployment as a 'default' editor for all users
> > which
> > we intend to do in a few months' time.
> >
> > Due to a number of issues we have been unable to release VisualEditor
> > to
> > non-English wikis until now, and we would very much like to get some
> great
> > feedback from as many wikis as possible - especially for extended
> > Unicode
> > and RTL languages, but also other languages. Does the VisualEditor
work
> in
> > your language? Does it gel with your wiki's workflow?
> >
> > The initial languages we want to target are the "top 10" Wikipedias
by
> way
> > of scale - de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja - plus selected others
to
> > help us discover issues we anticipate: ar,
he, hi, ko, zh. These will
> > let
> > us test most of the locales we are concerned about. If this goes
well,
> > we
> > hope to deploy the opt-in alpha to all Wikipedias.
> >
> > Please tell your wiki colleagues that this is coming, especially if
> > your
> > wiki is in this list! Additionally, you can see how fully-translated
> > the
> > software is into your language in the stats at TranslateWiki.Net[0] -
> > please encourage wiki colleagues to help translate the messages ahead
> > of
> > the deployment!
> >
> > As a note, we have just updated the VisualEditor integration so that
> > the
> > "Edit" tab goes to VisualEditor, and there is an "Edit
source" tab to
> > go
> > to the wikitext editor.
> >
> > This change (which affects the English Wikipedia opt-in deployment
and
> >
MediaWiki.org as well as the new deployments
mentioned above) moves
the
> > way that VisualEditor integrates with the
wiki's workflow to be
closer
> > to
> > how it will appear when it is the 'default' editor. It is still easy
to
> > use the wikitext editor if that is what you
want to do - the "Edit
> source"
> > tab (at least for now) will be "above the fold" and not in the
> > drop-down
> > menu on Vector.
> >
> > Happy to answer any questions you might have!
> >
> > Yours,
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > Product Manager, VisualEditor
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
> >
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