Hello all,

As before, the regular updatehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-02-18_.28MW_1.21wmf10.29 about progress on the VisualEditor:

The VisualEditor was updated as part of the wider MediaWiki 1.21wmf10 branch deployment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf10 on Monday 18 February. During this time, the team has expanded with the recruitment of Ed Sandershttps://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066421.html who will focus on the data infrastructure of the VisualEditor platform.

In the two weeks since 1.21wmf9, the team have worked on the infrastructure needed to support the new features being added for wider launch of the VisualEditor as the default way users will edit wikis. This infrastructure work has included further expansion in the capabilities of the 'document model' module that converts between the HTML+RDFa rendered by Parsoidhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid and an editable document, such as adding the ability in the system to edit "meta-data" like categories (45029https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45029); note that the user-facing editing component for this is yet to come. Other work has included supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer, adding new user interface widgets for a consistent UI, and reviewing and expanding the design of the user experience for inspectors and editors to cover template and reference editing.

Alongside this work, the team have fixed a number of bugs. These include integration improvements so that the toolbar doesn't appear multiple times if a user clicks back and forth (44838https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44838), errors thrown when users click at the end of a document (41199https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41199) or when using the link inspector in the stand-alone VE environment (44686https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44686), and making sure that inserted links get the link applied correctly (44086https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44086 ).

A complete list of individual code commits is available in the 1.21/wmf10 changelog https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf10#VisualEditor, and all Bugzilla bugs closed in this period 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-2013-02-18&product=VisualEditor&list_id=181146 .

If you have any questions, please do ask.

Yours,