[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Quim Gil
fyi Original Message Subject: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own! Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:14:39 -0800 From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org MediaWiki Groups are now official -

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 50 -- 10 December 2012

2012-12-11 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-12-10/News_and_notes WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-12-10/WikiProject_report

Re: [Wikimedia-l] News24 (.za): SA learners lobby for free Wikipedia

2012-12-11 Thread ENWP Pine
Thanks for forwarding. I'll forward this to link to the Signpost staff. I love the concept of Wikipedia Zero and I'm glad to hear that users are finding it valuable. Pine Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:33:00 + From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

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

2012-12-11 Thread Liam Wyatt
I just made my first, very minor, edit using the Visual Editor alpha. I feel paraphrasing Neil Armstrong is appropriate here: This is one small edit for a Wikipedian, one giant leap for Wikimedia. My most enthusiastic congratulations James and the whole team working on this project. We all know

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

2012-12-11 Thread Risker
On 11 December 2012 22:30, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: TL;DR: Today we are launching an alpha, opt-in version of the VisualEditor[0] to the English Wikipedia. This will let editors create and modify real articles visually, using a new system where the articles they edit

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

2012-12-11 Thread Terry Chay
For Trevor to remember... So we tried visually editing using the PS3 browser... http://campl.us/nckV Great job team! :-) Sent from my free corporate advertising removed at the request of the owner On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at

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

2012-12-11 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The future just got a little more real. Congratulations, all - this is really huge. Just did a few quick edits to test it out. Much easier adding text in this format, and also ran into some glitches which I reported.