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Weelcome til the portal fer VisualEditor (VeesualEediter). VisualEditor (VE) is ae new waa o eeditin Wikipædia that's bein deveelipt bi the Wikimedia Foundation. It permits fowk tae eedit wiot haein tae learn wiki maurkup. We hope that it will heelp fawk contreebute til Wikipædia.

Aneat VisualEditor
VisualEditor is ae "veesual" waa o eeditin Wikipædia. Histericlie, eeditin Wikipædia haes needed fawk tae learn wiki maurkup, ae fairlie complex maurkup leid, even tae mak fair wee chynges til ae page. In 2001, this wis acceptable; in 2013, it is drivin contreebuters awa. We hope that VisualEditor will be uissefu til exeestin contreebuters n mair weelcomin til new contreebuters.

VisualEditor has been available as an opt-in "alpha" release at MediaWiki.org since mid-2012 and on the English-language Wikipedia since December 2012, in 14 more languages since April 2013, and almost all other languages since the beginning of June 2013. As of July 2015, it has been available by default to logged-in and logged-out editors at more than 75% of the Wikipedias. We expect to make it available by default to most of the remaining languages in late 2015. Since late November 2014, it is also available as an opt-in Beta Feature at all WMF wikis except Wiktionary and Wikisource.

We are releasing regular status updates at Mediawiki.org, and a multilingual newsletter, focused on WMF wikis.

Using VisualEditor
If you're interested in using VisualEditor for editing, we have a guide to doing so, as well as a list of common keyboard shortcuts.

At the moment, VisualEditor haes ae nummer o bugs; this is ineveetable. Gif ye encoonter aen issue, please dinna swither tae report it oan the Feedback page. Foreby, thaur's some auries whaur we still hae tae big compleatlie new featurs. Leemitations nou incluid:


 * Slaw tae laid — It will tak ae while fer lang, complex pages tae laid intil VisualEditor. In the futur, the saffware will be ae lot faster, n will permit the laidin o muckler pages.
 * Oncompleate eeditin — Some elements o complex formattin will displey n lat ye eedit thair contents, bit will na lat uisers eedit thair structur or eik new entries – like defineetion leets. Eikin featurs in this aurie is yin o oor priorities.
 * Leemitit brouser support — Richt nou, VisualEditor yinlie wairks in the maist modern versions o Firefox, Chrome, Safari n Internet Explorer. It disna wairk in fair auld versions o onie brouser. Support fer Opera is leemitit.
 * Maist content pages, na tauk pages — VisualEditor is yinlie enabled fer some namespaces. At maist Wikipædias, VisualEditor can be uised oan airticles, User:, File:, Help: and Category: pages.  VisualEditor isna available fer Wikipedia: pages or onie tauk pages the nou.

Cause o thir leemitations, n ineveetable bugs, we recommend that uisers clap "" afore hain the page, n report onie proablems that thay encoonter.

Hou tae heelp oot
Fer VisualEditor tae be aes guid aes it can be, thaur's ae lot o things that we need heelp wi. Obveeislie, yin muckle aurie is uisin the saffware, fyndin bugs n reportin thaim, bit thaur's monie ither tasks aes weel. Thir incluid:


 * Updating help pages — All of our projects have help pages to make it easier for new users to contribute. Unfortunately they are all built around the markup editor, and as VisualEditor evolves, the screenshots and tutorials will all become outdated. It would be very useful if people could update help pages, based on our tutorial to using VisualEditor.
 * Adding TemplateData to templates — VisualEditor features a nice template editor, which is described in more detail on our help page. As you'll see if you use it on Wikipedia, some templates have named parameters and nice descriptions that make it easy to use. Others do not. This is because templates need "TemplateData" before this feature will work. If you're interested in adding TemplateData, we have a guide to doing so, along with a list of the most important templates to add it to.
 * Help your community — See the list of useful ways to help your local community when VisualEditor is offered as an opt-in Beta Feature.
 * Help new users — If the VisualEditor launch is successful, we will have a lot more new users than we are used to, and even though editing may be easier, working out how to interact with the community will still be hard. Please spend some time on the help desk, or in the IRC help channel, to help these newcomers become acclimatized to Wikipedia.