Oh, a PS: We're going to post an announcement on some village pumps, but please feel free to share this with your community. Thanks!
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > WMF's Community Tech team team is happy to announce that Wikitext Editor > Syntax Highlighting has been released as a beta feature today on all LTR > Wikimedia projects! > > Syntax Highlighting was the #6 request in this year's Community Wishlist > Survey [1] -- a way to help editors parse the wikitext in the edit window > by using color, bolding, italics and size to make it easier to see which > parts are article text, and which are links, templates, tags and headings. > > It's easy to separate the link target from the actual link text, section > headings are bigger, and adding bold and italics actually changes the way > it looks in the edit window. Plus -- thanks to the amazing performance > optimization done by volunteer developer Pastakhov -- it loads a lot faster > than previous versions of syntax highlighting. > > Unfortunately, the feature isn't available in RTL languages yet; we're > working on some bugs, and we'll release it as soon as we can. We're also > hoping to improve the Syntax Highlighting performance for people who also > use the "New wikitext mode" Beta feature. > > You can find Syntax Highlighting under the Beta features tab in > Preferences. I hope you all love it and find it useful! If you've got > feedback, you can click on the Discussion link in Beta features, or leave > comments and questions on the Community Tech project talk page. [2] Thanks! > > > Danny Horn > Senior Product Manager > WMF Community Tech > > [1] Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results > > [2] Project talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
