[Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

[Emily Blanchard]

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Emily Blanchard
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1)
> has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis.
>
> Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on
> Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think
> of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming
> changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their
> feedback.
>
> This first worldwide release includes these features:
> * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7)
> * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3)
> * Near this page —  see what other pages are nearby (4)
> * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 -
> see below)
> * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages  (6 - see
> below)
> (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it
> was already available, but not enabled by default.)
>
> We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know
> what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features
> program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their
> respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any
> technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
>
> We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday,
> 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10)
>
> Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program
> possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a
> better experience for all our users around the world.
>
> Enjoy,
>
>
> Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams
>
>
>
> (1) About Beta Features:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
>
> (2) About Media Viewer v0.1:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
>
> (3) About Typography Refresh:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
>
> (4) About Nearby Pages:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
>
> (5) About Visual Editor Opt-in:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General
>
> (6) About VisualEditor Formulæ:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
>
> (7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
> (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience.
> It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early
> December.)
>
> (8) Discuss Beta Features:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
>
> (9) Report a Bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures
>
> (10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
>
>
> P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their
> personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style
> page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line
> by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the
> quotes).
>
>
> ____________________________________________
>
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager, Multimedia
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
>
>
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