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Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. <[email protected]>org Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Join Us: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us Developers Join the Fun: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share inthe sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi folks, > > We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) > has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis. > > Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on > Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think > of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming > changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their > feedback. > > This first worldwide release includes these features: > * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7) > * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3) > * Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4) > * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - > see below) > * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see > below) > (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it > was already available, but not enabled by default.) > > We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know > what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features > program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their > respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any > technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). > > We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, > 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10) > > Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program > possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a > better experience for all our users around the world. > > Enjoy, > > > Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams > > > > (1) About Beta Features: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer > > (2) About Media Viewer v0.1: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer > > (3) About Typography Refresh: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update > > (4) About Nearby Pages: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages > > (5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General > > (6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae > > (7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo > (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. > It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early > December.) > > (8) Discuss Beta Features: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features > > (9) Report a Bug: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures > > (10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > > P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their > personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style > page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line > by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the > quotes). > > > ____________________________________________ > > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
