[Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

[Samuel Klein]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Emily Blanchard
<eblanchard at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Congratulations!  Looks good with lots of hard work behind it!
>

Yes, this looks simply great.  SJ


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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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