VisualEditor
| Group: | Features |
| Start: | 2011-05-15 |
| End: | |
| Team: | Roan Kattouw, Rob Moen, Ed Sanders, Inez Korczyński (Wikia), Christian Williams (Wikia), Timo Tijhof |
| Management: | James Forrester, Trevor Parscal |
| Status: | See updates |
- For the VisualEditor deployment at the English Wikipedia, check Wikipedia:VisualEditor.
The VisualEditor project aims to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki. It is being developed so it can be used as a MediaWiki extension, using the Parsoid project to supply HTML+RDFa.
It is currently deployed to a test namespace of this wiki; more information about this test deployment can be found on Wikimedia's blog, the FAQs, and VisualEditor:Welcome or VisualEditor:Test. Please note that the test deployment only works with the Vector skin.
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Rationale [edit]
The decline in new contributor growth is the single most serious challenge facing the Wikimedia movement. Removing the avoidable technical impediments associated with Wikimedia's editing interface is a necessary pre-condition for increasing the number of Wikimedia contributors.
Status [edit]
Timeline [edit]
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 the Visual Editor: "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.
Documentation [edit]
- Generated code documentation
- Presentations
- Specifications:
Subpages [edit]
See also [edit]
- Parsoid
- Extension:VisualEditor (including installation instructions)
- Future
- Wikitext.next
