Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

2015-04-16 Thread Katherine Maher
On Apr 16, 2015 6:55 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 09:38, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm glad to hear VE had your back. This actually reminds me, there's a feature we never really advertised in VisualEditor where a CSV file can be dragged

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

2015-04-16 Thread David Gerard
On 15 April 2015 at 09:38, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm glad to hear VE had your back. This actually reminds me, there's a feature we never really advertised in VisualEditor where a CSV file can be dragged into the editor and a table is created from its contents. We need

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

2015-04-16 Thread James Forrester
On 15 April 2015 at 18:12, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 17:59, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks James, unfortunately the method that you demonstrate there doesn't work with my configuration. Nothing happens when I try that method with Firefox,

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

2015-04-16 Thread Pine W
Regarding blog posting, I agree it's a good idea. Might want to wait on advertising the CSV import until it works for all users, which sounds like it will be April 29. In the meantime though, there could be a series of blog posts about other good aspects of VE. I suggest heavily emphasizing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lists as first class citizens

2015-04-16 Thread quiddity
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: [1] I remember User:Sj calling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Backlog the best page on Wikipedia; he's quite right. +1. I also like the https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Maintenance_panel

[Wikitech-l] Welcome Editing product analyst Neil P. Quinn

2015-04-16 Thread James Forrester
I ​ am very pleased to welcome Neil P. Quinn as the latest member of the Editing team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing, as our product analyst working alongside me. I​ n his own words: I was born and raised in North Carolina—specifically the lovely, humid, famous-for-NASCAR city of

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor support for table copy-and-paste from Word

2015-04-16 Thread Jonathan Morgan
+1 on blog post. I think it's finally time to celebrate success here. I was using VE for table editing the other day, and it worked amazingly well. Nice job, y'all. - J On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Katherine Maher kma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Apr 16, 2015 6:55 AM, David Gerard