2010/3/26 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:
Thanks.
Note, however, that if you add JS snippets, it may make it usable to me, but
probably not quite usable to many people who don't want to learn to edit
their vector.js. I've been editing Wikipedia for 5 years and i only created
a personal JS file a few days ago.
It's not hard, given instructions, right? The instructions tell you
the name of the page and exactly what to put into it, all you need to
do is Ctrl+C, Edit, Ctrl+V, Save. I agree it's not the most intuitive
thing in the world and gadgets are nicer (see below), but it's not
rocket science either (as long as you don't have to write the JS
yourself).
Making a GUI for adding buttons, at least through the
"Gadgets" tab in the
preferences, is essential.
It wouldn't be hard to implement the more popular buttons as Gadgets,
we could do that I guess.
I often write documentation for templates and having
to type
<nowiki></nowiki> all the time in examples of template usage is rather
harmful, especially in the RTL environment of he.wp.
I just heard we'll be adding a nowiki button in the stock toolbar, yay :)
Will it be enabled in Wikisource, too? It doesn't
work so well with the
Proofread Page extension, which i use all the time.
It will, yes. If you could file any bugs in the interaction between
Vector and ProofreadPage in Bugzilla, that'd be great.
In general, it would be less scary to hear the
announcement that the Beta
will so soon replace the current interface after the fixes to the important
bugs in the Beta are actually deployed (line breaks in pasted text, image
insertion in pasted text, etc.).
The copypaste issues were the consequence of accidentally enabling the
iframe editor for 36 hours. I disabled it again as soon as I figured
out what was going wrong. I repeat: the iframe-based editor and the
copypaste issues currently associated with it WILL NOT be part of the
default rollout. Also, I trust bugfixes made to the beta in the next
few weeks will be deployed quickly rather than waiting for the
switchover.
For
example, it will be much better to share problems with the Beta on a
dedicated page in en.wp or on Meta, than to report them through the rather
inconvenient "beta feedback" page. (And maybe such a page exists and i am
making a fool of myself :)
You mean
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prototype ? Also,
software bugs can and should be reported at
bugzilla.wikimedia.org .
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)