[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
For info, given interest in the VisualEditor. :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org Date: 18 April 2013 17:32 Subject: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org 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. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
You can add another language to the list? or some of wikipedia sisters? 2013/4/18 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org For info, given interest in the VisualEditor. :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org Date: 18 April 2013 17:32 Subject: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org 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. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
Btw, this is great! 2013/4/18 Raylton P. Sousa raylton.so...@gmail.com You can add another language to the list? or some of wikipedia sisters? 2013/4/18 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org For info, given interest in the VisualEditor. :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org Date: 18 April 2013 17:32 Subject: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org 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. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
On 18 April 2013 17:44, Raylton P. Sousa raylton.so...@gmail.com wrote: You can add another language to the list? We'll hopefully be able to deploy to every Wikipedia in all our languages quite soon, but we should test it first on a selection so that if we find problems we don't have many dozens of users finding the same problem. :-) BTW, I notice that my message lost the important link for TranslateWiki.Net: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStatsx=Dgroup=ext-visualeditor#sortable:3=desc - very grateful for any who can help translate the VisualEditor interface! or some of wikipedia sisters? We will hopefully be able to deploy to the sister projects in a little longer. Our focus to now has been on the core MediaWiki functionality and extensions that Wikipedias use, rather than on those for the sister projects, which means it may not be of as much use. Btw, this is great! Thank you. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
Ok, Thanks for the response! 2013/4/18 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org On 18 April 2013 17:44, Raylton P. Sousa raylton.so...@gmail.com wrote: You can add another language to the list? We'll hopefully be able to deploy to every Wikipedia in all our languages quite soon, but we should test it first on a selection so that if we find problems we don't have many dozens of users finding the same problem. :-) BTW, I notice that my message lost the important link for TranslateWiki.Net: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStatsx=Dgroup=ext-visualeditor#sortable:3=desc - very grateful for any who can help translate the VisualEditor interface! or some of wikipedia sisters? We will hopefully be able to deploy to the sister projects in a little longer. Our focus to now has been on the core MediaWiki functionality and extensions that Wikipedias use, rather than on those for the sister projects, which means it may not be of as much use. Btw, this is great! Thank you. :-) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
