VisualEditor
Group: | Editing |
Start: | 2011-05-15 |
Team: | Across various departments:
Editing Ed Sanders (lead), Alex Monk, David Chan, David Lynch, Frédéric Bolduc, James Forrester, Marielle Volz, Rummana Yasmeen, Thalia Chan Community Engagement Benoît Evellin, Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder Team Practices Group (Finance group) Research (Technology group) |
Management: | James Forrester, Lindsey Anne Frankenfield |
- For help installing and running VisualEditor, see Extension:VisualEditor.
- For changes made on this wiki using VisualEditor, see the filters visualeditor and visualeditor-switched.
The VisualEditor project aims to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki. VisualEditor is available as a MediaWiki extension using the Parsoid project to supply HTML+RDFa; however, its core implementation can be run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, or Node.js.
As of mid-2015, it is available to all users here at MediaWiki.org and on more than half of the Wikipedias, including French, Russian, and Italian. It is also available as an opt-in Beta Feature to logged-in users on most other projects, in all languages. VisualEditor is only available in some namespaces, including the main namespace (where this page is), but not in discussion namespaces.
More information about VisualEditor can be found on Wikimedia's blog and the FAQs. Please visit the main, multi-lingual VisualEditor Portal.
Contents
Rationale
The decline in new contributor growth is the single most serious challenge facing the Wikimedia movement. Removing avoidable technical impediments associated with Wikimedia's editing interface is a necessary pre-condition for increasing the number of Wikimedia contributors.
Status
- Why are we building this?
- VisualEditor rollouts
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Media Q&A (in English)
- How to use VisualEditor
- VisualEditor roadmap
- User testing reports
- Design portal
- Update help pages
- Add TemplateData
- Help new users
- TranslationCentral
- Translate & localize documentation
- Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Goals
- Roadmap
- Detailed backlog (see VisualEditor/Backlog design for details on how it works)
- Recent changes to VisualEditor
- Quarterly review notes and slides: June 2014, October 2014, January 2015, April 2015
- VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
Dashboards
- Continuous Integration
- Sprint Boardhttp://phlogiston.wmflabs.org/ve.html
- Sprint Burndown, Product Burnup
- Code review dashboard
- Edit analysis dashboard
- Editor engagement dashboard (enter "visual" in the search bar, choose one and click "visualize", e.g. English Wikipedia hourly edits, visual editor vs wikitext, % by user group)
History
- Some level of exploration was done in 2010 by the Wikipedia Usability Initiative.
- The 2011 product whitepaper published by the Wikimedia Foundation's strategic product team identified rich-text editing as one of the "Great Movement Projects". Work subsequently started in May 2011.
- The 2011-12 Wikimedia annual plan, released July 2011, states a goal for VisualEditor: "First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012".
- The 2012-13 Engineering Goals document sets a timeline for VisualEditor's development and deployment up to the end of June 2013.
- The 2013–2014 Engineering Goals document lists the goals for that year.
- VisualEditor is scheduled to be deployed across Wikimedia projects over the coming months. Below is the schedule as of May 2015:
Week of… | Launch | Users | Projects | Status |
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Summer 2012 | Phase 0 | All users | Mediawiki.org[1] | ![]() |
1 July 2013 | Logged-in users | English Wikipedia (en)[2] | ![]() |
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15 July 2013 | All users | ![]() |
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24 July 2013 | Phase 1 | Logged-in users | 7 of the largest Wikipedias
Spanish (es),[3] French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) & Swedish (sv)[4] |
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29 July 2013 | All users | ![]() |
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30 September 2013 | Phase 2 | Logged-in users | 27 of the next largest Wikipedias
Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Modern Greek (el), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Malay (ms), Neopolitan (nap), Norwegian - Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian - Bokmål (no), Sicilian (scn), Simple English (simple), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Venetian (vec), Volapük (vo), Waray-Waray (war) |
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7 October 2013 | All users | ![]() |
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2 December 2013 | Phase 3 | All users | 91 Wikipedias with all characters normally directly available to users
Acehnese (ace), Aymara (ay), Central Bikol (bcl), Bislama (bi), Banjar (bjn), Chavacano (cbk-zam), Chechen (ce), Chamorro (ch), Cheyenne (chy), Corsican (co), Kashubian (csb), Zazaki (diq), Emilian-Romagnol (eml), Extremaduran (ext), Fijian (fj), Faroese (fo), Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (frp), North Frisian (frr), Friulian (fur), Scottish Gaelic (gd), Hawai'ian (haw), Fiji Hindi (hif), Haitian (ht), Interlingua (ia), Ilokano (ilo), Ido (io), Lojban (jbo), Kongo (kg), Kikuyu (ki), Greenlandic (kl), Komi-Permyak (koi), Ripuarian (ksh), Cornish (kw), Ladino (lad), Lak (lbe), Ganda (lg), Limburgish (li), Ligurian (lij), Lombard (lmo), Banyumasan (map-bms), Malagasy (mg), Maori (mi), Minangkabau (min), Maltese (mwl), Erzya (myv), Nauruan (na), Low Saxon (nds), Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl), Novial (nov), Norman (nrm), Northern Sotho (nso), Chichewa (ny), Oromo (om), Pangasinan (pag), Kapampangan (pam), Papiamento (pap), Picard (pcd), Pennsylvania German (pdc), Norfuk (pih), Piedmontese (pms), Portuguese (pt), Quechuan (qu), Romansh (rm), Romani (rmy), Kirundi (rn), Aromanian (roa-rup), Tarantino (roa-tara), Kinyarwanda (rw), Northern Sami (se), Sango (sg), Samoan (sm), Shona (sn), Somali (so), Sranan (srn), Swazi (ss), Sesotho (st), Saterland Frisian (stq), Sundanese (su), Tongan (to), Tok Pisin (tpi), Tsonga (ts), Tumbuka (tum), Tahitian (ty), Tuvan (tyv), Veps (vep), West Flemish (vls), Kalmyk (xal), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo), Zeelandic (zea), Zulu (zu) |
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13 January 2014 | Phase 4 | All users | 23 remaining Wikipedias with all characters normally directly available to users
Alemannic (als), Aragonese (an), Asturian (ast), Bavarian (bar), Belarusian (be), Belarussian Taraškievica (be-x-old), Bosnian (bs), Esperanto (eo), West Frisian (fy), Irish (ga), Javanese (jv), Latin (la), Luxembourgish (lb), Lithuanian (lt), Occitan (oc), Palatinate German (pfl), Romanian (ro), Scots (sco), Albanian (sq), Swahili (sw), Tswana (tn), Vietnamese (vi), Xhosa (xh) |
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November 2014 | All users | Tagalog (tl) | ![]() |
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27 November 2014 | Logged-in users
Opt-in only |
Available as a beta feature at the following projects (at all languages): Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikivoyage and Wikiversity | ![]() |
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30 March 2015 | Phase 5 | All users | 53 Wikipedias with some characters not normally directly-available to users
Abkhazian (ab), Afrikaans (af), Akan (ak), Anglo-Saxon (ang), Avar (av), Azerbaijani (az), Bashkir (ba), Samogitian (bat-smg), Bambara (bm), Breton (br), Buryat (bxr), Crimean Tatar (crh), Old Church Slovonic (cu), Chuvash (cv), Welsh (cy), Lower Sorbian (dsb), Ewe (ee), Fula (ff), Võro (fiu-vro), Gagauz (gag), Guarani (gn), Hausa (ha), Upper Sorbian (hsb), Igbo (ig), Inupiak (ik), Icelandic (is), Karakalpak (kaa), Kabyle (kab), Kabardian (kbd), Karachay-Balkar (krc), Komi (kv), Kyrgyz (ky), Lezgian (lez), Lingala (ln), Latgalian (ltg), Moksha (mdf), Meadow Mari (mhr), Macedonian (mk), Mongolian (mn), Hill Mari (mrj), Maltese (mt), Nahuatl (nah), Navajo (nv), Ossetian (os), Rusyn (rue), Sakha (sah), Silesian (szl), Turkmen (tk), Tatar (tt), Udmurt (udm), Venda (ve), Walloon (wa), Wolof (wo) |
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TBC | Phase 6a | All users | 14 Wikipedias with slightly more complex scripts
(Provisional list) Amharic (am), Buginese (bug), Min Dong (cdo), Cree (cr), Manx (gv), Hakka (hak), Armenian (hy), Georgian (ka), Pontic (pnt), Serbo-Croatian (sh), Tigrinya (ti), Mingrelian (xmf), Zhuang (za), Min Nan (zh-min-nan) |
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TBC | Phase 6 | All users | 45 Wikipedias with complex characters inserted using Input Method Editors
Arabic (ar), Aramaic (arc), Egyptian Arabic (arz), Assamese (as), Behari (bh), Bengali (bn), Tibetan (bo), Bishnupriya (bpy), Cherokee (chr), Sorani Kurdish (ckb), Dhivehi (dv), Dzongkha (dz), Persian (fa), Gilaki (glk), Gothic (got), Gujarati (gu), Hindi (hi), Japanese (ja), Khmer (km), Kannada (kn), Korean (ko), Kashmiri (ks), Lao (lo), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Burmese (my), Mazanderani (mzn), Nepali (ne), Nepal Bhasa (new), Oriya (or), Punjabi (pa), Pali (pi), Saraiki (Western Punjabi) (pnb), Pashto (ps), Sanskrit (sa), Sindhi (sd), Sinhala (si), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Uyghur (ug), Urdu (ur), Wu (wuu), Classical Chinese (zh-classical), Cantonese (zh-yue) |
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TBC | Phase 7 | All users | 9 language variant Wikipedias
Gan (gan), Inuktitut (iu), Kazakh (kk), Kurdish (ku), Tachelhit (shi), Serbian (sr), Tajik (tg), Uzbek (uz), Chinese (zh) |
Enabling VisualEditor by default for all users or for all logged-in users can be requested by contacting product manager James Forrester.
Notes
- ↑ Initially restricted to just the VisualEditor: namespace, later for all pages.
- ↑ Subsequently switched back to "opt-in" mode in September 2013 until September 2015.
- ↑ Subsequently switched back to "opt-in" mode in February 2014 until December 2015.
- ↑ German (de) and Dutch (nl) initially proposed, but withdrawn before full deployment due to community concerns.
Documentation
You can speak with us in our chat channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor
connect.
Related pages
For more information on VisualEditor and its design process, see these directory pages:
- Design portal
- Planning and testing
- Software
- Feedback archives
- Presentations
- Usability
- Forecasts
- 2015 Review of Process
- 2016 Team Offsite and Retrospective
See also
- a VisualEditor demo page/sandbox
- Extension:VisualEditor (including installation instructions)
- VisualEditor/Installation on a shared host
- Guide to hacking VisualEditor: VE gadgets
- Parsoid
- Future (as of 2012)
- Wikitext.next
- VisualEditor/Index of related pages on several wikis
- VisualEditor multilingual newsletter, focused on WMF wikis
- Results of the 2015 survey.
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