Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Patricio Lorente
Looks great! Congrats James and team! Patricio 2012/12/12 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: On Wednesday, 12 December 2012, Bishakha Datta wrote: I'm just imagining how much easier it will be to do wiki workshops and outreach sessions as this develops

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Stevie Benton
Excellent job, James and team! I hope you don't mind me sharing the details on the WMUK blog. Thanks, Stevie On 12 December 2012 10:34, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.comwrote: Looks great! Congrats James and team! Patricio 2012/12/12

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Nicole Ebber
Yay! Great news, thank you so much for your outstanding work. \o/ I was just about to ask the same question as Stevie: Would you like us to spread the word publicly or better keep it more internal/to the community for now? Thanks, Nicole On 12 December 2012 11:47, Stevie Benton

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I agree that it is of great use to any and all projects. No argument there. My point is that when it works for any Devanagari language Wikipedia it will work equally well for the corresponding Devanagari Wikibooks. The one thing particular to the English Wikipedia is that it has its own

[Wikimedia-l] Monthly Report Wikimedia Deutschland November 2012

2012-12-12 Thread Katja Ullrich
Dear all, I am sending you the monthly report of Wikimedia Deutschland for November 2012. Highlights this month: * the eleventh general assembly of Wikimedia Deutschland and the community event Open Sundayhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Offener_Sonntag *the research project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 December 2012 02:58, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: dont' forget sister projects Absolutely. One of my particular concerns over the next few months is understand how other non-Wikipedia wikis using MediaWiki (primarily Wikimedia's, but others' too) work, and in what ways we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le mercredi 12 décembre 2012 à 11:24 -0800, James Forrester a écrit : On 12 December 2012 02:58, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: dont' forget sister projects Absolutely. One of my particular concerns over the next few months is understand how other non-Wikipedia wikis using

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Terry Chay
Gerard, As James pointed out before launch[1], there are two distinct parts of the VisualEditor project: the Visual Editor and the Parsoid. The original intent was to also launch on one or two other language wikis to test the alpha. I believe VisualEditor messages have already been i18n'd to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread geni
On 12 December 2012 20:29, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Terry with respect, an alpha release that is not even ready to be used in the scripts and languages of Wikipedia is not worthy of the designation alpha. Err do you know what alpha means in a software context?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Tom Morris
On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 20:29, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Terry with respect, an alpha release that is not even ready to be used in the scripts and languages of Wikipedia is not worthy of the designation alpha. It has pointed out for more than a year that the internationalisation of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Richard Ames
James - Thanks for the opportunity to road test your work and to ignore it if I want. Open is what it is all about.. Regards, Richard. On 12/12/12 14:30, James Forrester wrote: snip Why launch now? We want our community of existing editors to get an idea of what the VisualEditor will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Fantastic early Christmas present is fantastic. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: James - Thanks for the opportunity to road test your work and to ignore it if I want. Open is what it is all about.. Regards, Richard. On 12/12/12 14:30, James