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Table editing capabilities available in VisualEditor extension to MediaWiki 1.23?

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Paugul (talkcontribs)

The table editing functionality is very much wanted. Will this be available with MediaWiki 1.23?

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

It's very unlikely. Back-porting that much code would be perilous and complicated, and it's not something we're planning to work on at WMF.

153.110.241.230 (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your reply.

May I ask for an advice?

We are finishing an upgrade of our wiki from MW 1.16 with FCEditor extension.

We decided to use MW 1.23. The reason is: MW 1.23 is a LTS version.

We want to use VisualEditor, but without table editor it seems like we will offer our editors poorer functionality with VisualEditor than the existing functionallity they experience with FCEditor.

Will VisualEditor in combination with MW 1.24 (latest stable) give us table editor?

Will MW 1.25 be a better choice?

We are not in a position where we can use much resources on keeping MediaWiki and extensions up to date. That is why we wanted a LTS version.

Paugul

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

It looks like LTS versions are only released once every two years, and the last one (1.23) was in 2014. Unless you're willing to wait until 2016 for this, then I think you'll have to go with the current version.

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