Hello all,
As before, the regular
update<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-02-18_.28…
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
Sanders<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/0…
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
Parsoid<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> and
an editable document, such as adding the ability in the system to edit
"meta-data" like categories
(
45029<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45029>)9>);
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
(
44838<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44838>)8>),
errors thrown when users click at the end of a document
(
41199<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41199>)
or when using the link inspector in the stand-alone VE environment
(
44686<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44686>)6>),
and making sure that inserted links get the link applied correctly
(
44086<https://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
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