On 13/12/11 21:27, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
> Here's the demo, where you can edit some canned texts (but not actual
> Wikipedia articles, yet):
>
>     http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox
>
> Post bugs here:
>
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=VisualEditor
>
> And here's the blog post, which puts it more in context.
>
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/help-test-the-first-visual-editor-developer-prototype/
>

That is really cool; at long last, the WYSIWYG editor is not just on its 
way, but looking really good!

Once the wikitext parser (which is, of course, the hard part) is ready 
to be bolted in, that should give a big improvement in Wikipedia's 
accessibility for new editors -- almost everyone knows how to use a word 
processor.

-- N.


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