[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

[Nasir Khan]

Hi,
Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
start the test earlier :)

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**Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891>
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber at wikimedia.de>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several
> Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
>
> I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to
> discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication
> and feedback process in this regards.
>
> So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
>
> Thanks,
> Nicole Ebber
> International Affairs
>
> http://wikimedia.de
>
> All,
>
> TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week as an
> opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about this
> and help get the software translated.
>
> Next week (on 25 April) we are going to deploy the alpha opt-in version of
> the VisualEditor to some non-English Wikipedias in the same way that it
> has been on the English Wikipedia since December 2012.
>
> This will let users get familiar with the VisualEditor, give us feedback
> on what works and what is broken, and help us prioritise further work
> ahead of the planned deployment as a 'default' editor for all users which
> we intend to do in a few months' time.
>
> Due to a number of issues we have been unable to release VisualEditor to
> non-English wikis until now, and we would very much like to get some great
> feedback from as many wikis as possible - especially for extended Unicode
> and RTL languages, but also other languages. Does the VisualEditor work in
> your language? Does it gel with your wiki's workflow?
>
> The initial languages we want to target are the "top 10" Wikipedias by way
> of scale - de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja - plus selected others to
> help us discover issues we anticipate: ar, he, hi, ko, zh. These will let
> us test most of the locales we are concerned about. If this goes well, we
> hope to deploy the opt-in alpha to all Wikipedias.
>
> Please tell your wiki colleagues that this is coming, especially if your
> wiki is in this list! Additionally, you can see how fully-translated the
> software is into your language in the stats at TranslateWiki.Net[0] -
> please encourage wiki colleagues to help translate the messages ahead of
> the deployment!
>
> As a note, we have just updated the VisualEditor integration so that the
> "Edit" tab goes to VisualEditor, and there is an "Edit source" tab to go
> to the wikitext editor.
>
> This change (which affects the English Wikipedia opt-in deployment and
> MediaWiki.org as well as the new deployments mentioned above) moves the
> way that VisualEditor integrates with the wiki's workflow to be closer to
> how it will appear when it is the 'default' editor. It is still easy to
> use the wikitext editor if that is what you want to do - the "Edit source"
> tab (at least for now) will be "above the fold" and not in the drop-down
> menu on Vector.
>
> Happy to answer any questions you might have!
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> Product Manager, VisualEditor
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
> jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
>
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