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 <nasir8...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
