I second that. This is an awesome addition. I blogged about it the other day after we dockerized mediawiki. We automated the whole installation in case you want to check it out http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2015/04/dockerized-mediawiki-125-upgrade.html
The reason we migrated is because of the promise of Visual Editor and it did not let us down. We tried first the wikipedia version and we said "we must switch" immediately ;-) Great job and congratulations to everyone! - Nestor On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote: > Pine, > > I'm glad to hear VE had your back. This actually reminds me, there's a > feature we never really advertised in VisualEditor where a CSV file can be > dragged into the editor and a table is created from its contents. > > Give it a try. And thank Ed Sanders for all things tables and Copy/Paste. > > - Trevor > > On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hear hear. > > > > The VE people's amazing wizardry deserves praise. > > > > > > -- > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > “We're living in pieces, > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > > 2015-04-15 11:05 GMT+03:00 Pine W <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > > > > James, > > > > > > I just want to say a public "thank you" for VE saving my sanity by > doing > > > something that I didn't know was possible. I was able to copy a table > > from > > > Word onto Meta using VisualEditor, and much to my surprise it mostly > > > worked. I must have tried at least five other ways to get one of > Cascadia > > > Wikimedians' annual plan tables copied from Google Docs onto Meta, all > > with > > > poor results. While VisualEditor only copied part of the formatting > into > > > MediaWiki, the results were far better than anything else I had tried > for > > > the past few hours. So thank you very much for supporting this > > > copy-and-paste functionality with VisualEditor. > > > > > > Pine > > > > > > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock > of > > > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water > > we > > > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in > > > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the > broad > > > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do > > not > > > know.* > > > > > > *—Catherine Munro* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > 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
