On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 19:30 -0800, James Forrester wrote:
This is not the final form of the VisualEditor in lots of different ways. We know of a number of bugs, and we expect you to find more. We do not recommend people trying to use the VisualEditor for their regular editing yet. We would love your feedback on what we have done so far – whether it’s a problem you discovered, an aspect that you find confusing, what area you think we should work on next, or anything else, please do let us know.[1]
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback
Playing the bad cop who's reading random feedback pages daily:
As https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Feedback also exists I wonder if the VisualEditor deployment on en.wp and its related feedback is so different from upstream that it needs a separate feedback page (instead of e.g. a soft redirect to the mw: one), or other reasons. Or does the en.wp one somehow make it easier for testers to report issues? When we deploy VE to other Wikipedias, will there also be separate VE feedback pages (maybe due to the different languages)?
Note: I'm not criticizing it, I'm just trying to understand, and I'm picking VE as the most recent example.
Thanks in advance for explaining, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Risker said many of the reasons but the biggest reason is that a large portion of testers would not move wiki. Opening up a local spot for feedback drastically increases the amount of feedback you get which can be really helpful. Personally I think we should do it on as many wikis as we can for major projects like this but it's obviously difficult to do on many because of both the language barriers and watching too many feedback channels.
Yet another thing that once a product like Echo works cross wiki it could be helpful for :) but that's a bit of a ways away.
James
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