All,

This fortnight's update for VisualEditor[0] - I'm skipping the one for Parsoid based on your feedback, but it is available here[1]:

The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf1 branch deployment[2] on Monday 1 October.

The team have spent most of the two weeks since 1.20wmf12 working on re-designing how the code integrates together, providing clean interfaces between them so new developers can re-use and extend VisualEditor to support new 'node types' like categories or tables when we work on these later.

Beyond this API work, we added a few updates. Firstly, you can now set the 'annotation' where the caret is, without a selection — i.e., you can click somewhere, type Ctrl+B (or press the 'Bold' icon) and start typing with the text appearing bold (33140 [3]). We also now switch around the order of the undo and redo buttons for right-to-left languages (38548 [4]). Finally, we fixed a bug where applying a link to some text would remove any other 'annotations' (such as bold or italics) already set on it (40337 [5]).

A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf1 changelog [6], and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period on Bugzilla's list[7].

[0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2012-10-01_.28MW_1.21wmf1... [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/status#2012-10-01 [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf1 [3] - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33140 [4] - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38548 [5] - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40337 [6] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf1#VisualEditor [7] - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_sta...

Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester | +1 415-839-6885 x6844