Btw, this is great!
2013/4/18 Raylton P. Sousa <[email protected]> > You can add another language to the list? > or some of wikipedia sisters? > > > 2013/4/18 James Forrester <[email protected]> > >> For info, given interest in the VisualEditor. :-) >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: James Forrester <[email protected]> >> Date: 18 April 2013 17:32 >> Subject: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias >> To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects >> <[email protected]> >> >> >> 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. >> >> [email protected] | @jdforrester >> >> >> -- >> James D. Forrester >> Product Manager, VisualEditor >> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> >> [email protected] | @jdforrester >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
