Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew Gray 
Any user on one of fifteen Wikipedias (English plus the fourteen new
ones). I don't think it will be opt in on any others just yet, though
hopefully soon!

Andrew.

On 22 April 2013 11:02, Deryck Chan  wrote:
> I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt
> themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct?
> Deryck
>
> On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
>> start the test earlier :)
>>
>> *
>> --
>> **Nasir Khan Saikat* 
>> www.nasirkhn.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber > >wrote:
>>
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several
>> > Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
>> >
>> > I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to
>> > discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication
>> > and feedback process in this regards.
>> >
>> > So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Nicole Ebber
>> > International Affairs
>> >
>> > http://wikimedia.de
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-22 Thread Deryck Chan 
I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt
themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct?
Deryck

On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan  wrote:

> Hi,
> Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
> start the test earlier :)
>
> *
> --
> **Nasir Khan Saikat* 
> www.nasirkhn.com
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber  >wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several
> > Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
> >
> > I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to
> > discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication
> > and feedback process in this regards.
> >
> > So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nicole Ebber
> > International Affairs
> >
> > http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > 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
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-21 Thread Nasir Khan 
Hi,
Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to
start the test earlier :)

*
--
**Nasir Khan Saikat* 
www.nasirkhn.com



On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber wrote:

> Hey,
>
> The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several
> Wikipedias on Thursday next week.
>
> I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to
> discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication
> and feedback process in this regards.
>
> So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join!
>
> Thanks,
> Nicole Ebber
> International Affairs
>
> http://wikimedia.de
>
> 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
>
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