Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-06-06_.28…
about
progress on the VisualEditor (these are now weekly):
VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf6 branch
deployment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf6> on Thursday
6 June. In the ten days weeks since 1.22wmf5, the team worked on new
features ahead of VisualEditor's launch as the default way users will edit
our wikis in beta.
The most noticeable change for users is that it is now possible to set,
edit and remove the categories that a page belongs to and it's "default
sort" key, as part of the new "page settings" dialog that can be opened
from the button on the toolbar. For now, this dialog covers categories and
a simple listing of language links, but will be expanded to cover other
"meta-data" like a page having the table of contents disabled, and
integration with Wikidata's language links system. Work also continued on
the other three critical areas ahead of the release - Templates, References
and Images - and we hope to release these in the next week or two.
The way that known browsers are supported changed slightly; browsers are
now only blacklisted if we know that they cause significant problems, like
Internet Explorer version 8 and below. If your browser is not known, you
will get a notice alerting you to this issue
(
38128<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38128>)8>).
We have added further support in our back-end for multi-character "grapheme
clusters", which means that wikis that use extended ("non-BMP") Unicode
characters can now work
(
48975<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48975>)5>).
The left and right arrow keys now move in the correct direction in RTL
environments (38546 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38546>).
A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf6
changelog<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf6/Changelog#V…or>,
and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's
list<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&am…
.
If you have any questions, please do ask.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester