All,

As before, the regular updatehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-08-22_.28MW_1.22wmf14.29 about progress on VisualEditor:

VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.22wmf14 branch deployment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14 on Thursday 22 August, though many of the changes were made available ahead of this release. In the week since 1.22wmf13, the team worked on fixing bugs and stability and performance improvements to VisualEditor, with some minor work on features.

You can now add and edit <u> (underline), <sub> (subscript), and <sup> (superscript) annotations in experimental mode on MediaWiki.org (bugs 51609https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51609 , 51612 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51612 and 51611https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51611 respectively). These, along with the annotations for <s> (strikethrough) and <u> (underline) which were released last week will be made available on all wikis once the re-design of the toolbar is complete, to avoid them dominating the buttons that are more normally used.

In terms of bugs, firstly, file inclusions which have empty |link= parameters are no longer corrupted on save (bug 51963https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51963). A number of issues related to the undo and redo buttons and keyboard shortcuts not applying to the document were fixed (bug 52113https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52113). Inserting an existing reference into the first paragraph in Firefox no longer inserts it at the start of the document, but where your cursor was (bug 52159 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52159). Finally, after a significant re-write of some of the core of VisualEditor, a number of bugs related to text input and selection in various scripts and using various Input Method Editors (IMEs) were fixed (bugs 50105https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50105 for Arabic; 50346 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50346 for Kannada; 50631 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50631 for Korean; 51477 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51477 for Devanagari; and 52716 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52716 for Japanese).

A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.22/wmf14 changeloghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14/Changelog#VisualEditor, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period are on Bugzilla's listhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&target_milestone=VE-deploy-2013-08-22&product=VisualEditor&list_id=228134 . If you have any questions, please do ask.​

Yours,