Hi, Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to start the test earlier :)
* -- **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891> www.nasirkhn.com On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l