Regarding blog posting, I agree it's a good idea. Might want to wait on advertising the CSV import until it works for all users, which sounds like it will be April 29. In the meantime though, there could be a series of blog posts about other good aspects of VE.
I suggest heavily emphasizing the faster load times and how this was achieved. That post would appeal both to Wikipedians who were upset about lengthy load times with early versions of VE, and to software engineers who may be interested in knowing how such significant improvements were achieved. I'm planning to produce a short video tutorial about VE for the benefit of people who are attending Cascadia Wikimedians workshops in the near future, and others can reuse it if they wish. However, I think that including a video demonstration of the CSV import technique would be valuable, and that will need to wait until after the functionality is rolled out on the 29th, so early May might be a realistic timeframe for having a video of high enough quality that it would be worth advertising. Of course, others can proceed on their own with communicating improvements about VE, and a series of blog posts sounds like a good way to do that, perhaps one a week for the next few weeks. Cheers, 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* On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 2015 6:55 AM, "David Gerard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 15 April 2015 at 09:38, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > We need a blog post about what VE is like these days. I suspect too > > many people who tried it at release think it still intrinsically > > sucks, and need to give it a spin again now, two years later. > > We're planning one, if not a few! Fabrice and the blog team are thinking > about how to best showcase VE on the blog, from user and technical > perspectives. (Posts highlighting engineering work are among of the most > highly trafficked on the blog). > > I'd welcome thoughts on what you think we should specifically cover. > > > > > > > > Give it a try. And thank Ed Sanders for all things tables and > Copy/Paste. > > > > In particular, listing all the cool stuff you can do with tables. You > > can take out a column with a click instead of tediously going through > > each line and trying not to make a mistake!! The VE is the *only* sane > > way to edit tables. > > > > Seriously, it warrants the hype these days. > > > > And, three cheers for Ed. Hip hooray! Hip hooray! Hip hooray! > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
