Re: [Wikitext-l] VisualEditor Status for 3rd-party Wikis

On 24 August 2012 06:29, Andrew Martin <martopolis(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is possible, but I would not recommend it. Firstly, because there is a lot of missing functionality in VisualEditor right now, and which won't "round-trip" cleanly if left alone (for example, categories or template transclusions). Also, VisualEditor depends on Parsoid to convert between wikitext and HTML, which as well as being incomplete, the team are currently re-writing from NodeJS into C++. In the Wikimedia Foundation's Engineering Goals for 2012/13[0], we have said that we expect to have an initial "real-world" deployment in December this year, and proper integration (including proper installation instructions!) by June/July next year. Hopefully we may have something useful for general third parties before then, but if you want to try ahead of this schedule, there are instructions to set up Parsoid here[1] and you get grab a copy of the current head for VisualEditor similarly with[2]. Of course, we'd be interested in your feedback and thoughts on what we've got already, and how we could improve it. :-) Sorry that the timeline isn't shorter. [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Mileston… [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid#Getting_started [2] - git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.git Yours, -- James D. Forrester jdforrester(a)gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)