Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-19 Thread Katherine Casey
I've found it very difficult to test out the VE because so much of what I do involves, one way or another, templates (which don't work yet in VE). Manipulating anything to do with a source, for example, is out. Adding tags to an article is out. Infoboxes are out. And so forth. I suspect once

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 May 2013 05:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: As I think I commented elsewhere, the lack of references is a deal breaker for me, even for testing. A couple of times already I started making an edit with the VE, then went to add a reference...and hard to start over in the

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:43 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references

[WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread David Gerard
This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references and templates) and give it a good kicking. A bug discovered now saves

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/5/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references and templates) and give it a

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 May 2013 22:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Mmmm... so I know that it's the English Wikipedia mailing list, but I suppose that this won't hurt: In the Hebrew Wikipedia several people tried the VisualEditor. I counted seven newly reported bugs as a result of this,