Contributors


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The Editing department of Wikimedia Engineering works on extending and improving the editing tools used at Wikimedia – VisualEditor and other content tools, Collaboration tools, Multimedia support, Language tools for translation, content and communication, and Parsing. We exist to support new and existing editors alike across desktop, tablet and phone platforms.

VisualEditor team

 * VisualEditor, a stand-alone rich HTML editor with a separate deep integration into MediaWiki
 * WikiEditor (the main wikitext editor on Wikimedia wikis; mostly in maintenance)
 * The basic MediaWiki default wikitext editor inside  (purely maintenance)
 * 2017 wikitext editor

Maintained, supported, and related editing-related tools

 * Extension:Babel
 * Extension:BetaFeatures
 * Extension:Calendar
 * Extension:CategoryTree
 * Extension:CharInsert
 * Extension:Cite
 * Extension:Citoid
 * Extension:CiteThisPage
 * Extension:CleanChanges
 * Extension:CodeEditor
 * Extension:CodeReview
 * Extension:Collection
 * Extension:CommonsMetadata
 * Extension:ConfirmEdit
 * Extension:ContactPage
 * Extension:ContributionTracking
 * Extension:CreditsSource
 * Extension:Disambiguator
 * Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) (aka Extension:Intersection)
 * Extension:EasyTimeline
 * Extension:FlaggedRevs
 * Extension:Gadgets
 * Extension:GeoCrumbs
 * Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap
 * Extension:Graph
 * Extension:ImageMap
 * Extension:InputBox
 * Extension:Insider
 * Extension:LabeledSectionTransclusion
 * Extension:Listings
 * Extension:MapSources
 * Extension:MassMessage
 * Extension:Math
 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Extension:Petition
 * Extension:Poem
 * Extension:Proofread Page
 * Extension:Quiz
 * Extension:RSS
 * Extension:Score
 * Extension:Scribunto
 * Extension:SpamBlacklist
 * Extension:SubPageList3
 * Extension:SubpageSortkey
 * Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi
 * Extension:TemplateData
 * Extension:TemplateSandbox
 * Extension:Timeline
 * Extension:TitleBlacklist
 * Extension:TocTree
 * Extension:WikiHiero

Maintained libraries

 * The OOjs library for OO JavaScript development
 * The OOjs UI library for widget-based front-end development (in PHP and JavaScript)
 * UnicodeJS
 * CSSJanus

Collaboration team

 * Edit Review Improvements, a project researching ways to reduce the negative effects current edit-review processes can have on new editors to the wikis.
 * Echo (Notifications), a notification system (Extension:Echo)
 * Flow, a discussion and collaboration system (Extension:Flow)
 * Thanks, allows users to thank other users for individual edits

Maintained, supported, and related collaboration tools

 * MoodBar, a feature to encourage new users to provide feedback (Extension:MoodBar)
 * Page Curation, an interface for reviewing new pages (Extension:PageTriage)
 * WikiLove, an extension to encourage expressions of appreciation between users (Extension:WikiLove)

Multimedia
See Multimedia.

Language
See Wikimedia Language engineering.

Parsing
See Parsing.

Analysis
See Editing/Analysis.

Other responsibilities
The Editing department is also generally responsible for these areas, although they don't belong to a specific team within the department:
 * User accounts, preferences, and registrations

Progress on annual plan, quarterly goals and other work
Below we provide brief narratives of our status on each of Editing's quarterly goals, and alongside them the department's teams do a lot of other work to support the annual plan, from support work for other departments to preparations for future quarterly goals.

Analysis
2016-11-09:
 * We're working to consolidate our various data sources into one place. We've worked with Analytics Engineering on documentation for the Dashiki dashboarding system, which is now published, and consulted with Research to understand the provenance and purpose of some of the historical measures. We're hoping to get initial data movement expected soon.
 * Our team members continue to spend a lot of time working to support other teams in Editing and more widely. We're currently working on providing numbers for Community Tech helping the English Wikipedia consider a configuration change, assisting Community Engagement with the forthcoming Insights survey work, and calculating aggregate metrics to Creative Commons for their annual plan and for Major Gifts for a report.

Collaboration
2016-11-09:
 * Our quarterly goal, under the "Invest in new forms of curation and collaboration tools" banner, is to provide a Beta Feature of filters to recent changes that show ORES good-faith and damaging tests, and filters around new users. The work on this is proceeding mostly as planned, and we hope it shall be available to users for use and feedback before the end of the quarter.
 * We have worked for months to redo Flow's caching infrastructure, to help Performance achieve their aim of multi-data-centre support. The main patch to implement this merged today, and we believe will complete this work.

Design
2016-11-09:
 * Our quarterly goal is to provide and apply a style guide which all teams in Editing and more widely follow, as part of "Improve editing experience by reducing technical and product debt". We have implemented most of the changes into OOUI, and are now gathering feedback and considering documentation.
 * Our team members continue to spend most of their time embedded with other teams.

Language
2016-11-09:
 * Our quarterly goal, under "Invest in new types of content creation", is to add a personal "translations list" feature to ContentTranslation so translators can create and modify a list of articles to be translated on their dashboard. This is going well and we hope to complete it by the end of the quarter.
 * Work on a system inside ContentTranslation to translate uses of templates to the target wiki, allowing experts to mark which bits of each template lines up with others, is proceeding well.
 * We've deployed and announced our new machine translation service inside ContentTranslation aimed at CJK languages powered by Youdao. Our thanks to Partnerships and Operations for their support in finalising this work.
 * Our work on deploying Compact Language Links out of beta (T66793) is now paused; it is done for all Wikivoyages except Russian, and all Wikibookses, Wikiversities, Wikinewses, Wikiquotes, and Wiktionaries, and for all Wikipedias except English, Swedish, German, Dutch, and French, for which new schedules will be drawn up soon. (T136677)

Multimedia
2016-11-09:
 * Our quarterly goal, as part of "Improve editing experience by reducing technical and product debt", is to provide rich media file annotations and iterate their storage. The former is going well, and we hope to provide design options to the Commons community to decide in the next week or so. The latter is stalled on the Multi-Content Revisions Streams work, so we have paused consideration.
 * We're supporting the work of colleagues in shaping a plan to expedite the work on Structured data for Commons, considering the technical and product issues and advising on changes as necessary.
 * We've paused our work on the non-destructive image editing tool (Standalone demo, MediaWiki demo). because it will rely on the Thumbor service that Performance are bringing to production. They believe it will be available next quarter, when we hope to release this to users.

Parsing
2016-11-29:
 * Our quarterly goal within "2: Improve editing experience by reducing technical and product debt" is to replace the Tidy dependency from MediaWiki output. We're planning to provide an alternative to Tidy (disabled by default) and the tools for individual editors to assess the impact of switching on each page. We expect to do a pilot deployment this quarter.
 * We're working with Reading and others on support for multi-script wikis (like Chinese), initially just for reading but later for editing too. This work is now awaiting review and related additional fixes before we can declare it completed.
 * We've brought forwards work from earlier this year on reducing the bandwidth demands of read-mode pages by considering how to move  out of inline HTML; discussions on the best way forward continue between us, Services, VisualEditor, Language and Collaboration.
 * We're working on several improvements for better support of media in Parsoid. Our initial work on image galleries is now complete and ready for deployment. It is being reviewed by the VisualEditor team and might require additional fixes before being enabled for use inside VE. For video and audio files, the specification agreed but work is currently paused.
 * We have started working to finish up and provide to editors the output of the GSoC "linter" project to spot wikitext mistakes and issues for editors to fix. This should help improve the quality of the wikitext corpus and reduce errors for users. Database and Security reviews are complete and additional work is ongoing to ready this for deployment next quarter (Q3 2016-17).
 * We've paused our work on providing a system to balance templates, due to competing concerns.
 * We've paused our work on providing a system to isolate styles of templates, due to competing concerns.
 * Our work on implementing into MediaWiki generic shadow namespace support continues, albeit slowly, with a series of wide-ranging changes to MediaWiki planned.

VisualEditor
2016-11-09:
 * Our quarterly goal, as part of "Maintain and incrementally improve current content creation and curation interfaces", is to provide a unified, consistent editing interface between mobile and desktop Web, and between visual and wikitext editors. The initial version of the Beta Feature of the editor is complete, and undergoing final user testing before release, which will happen some time in November. Work on further features is underway.
 * We're working on visual diffing which allow users who don't know wikitext to see the changes they're making as they edit, and will give a better way to spot some subtle changes in edits. The initial version is merged and we're working on the interaction design to support the richness of wikitext edits. We hope to provide it inside the MediaWiki visual editor in a few months, and eventually outside the editor too as an option when looking at diffs in any context.
 * Our work to release the visual editor to Wikipedias is now almost complete. There are now eight multi-script Wikipedias (including Chinese) which are technologically blocked, and on which we're working with Parsing. There are also three other Wikipedias in incomplete deployment states (English, Spanish and Dutch), for which work is paused pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until after calendar 2016.
 * Our work to release the visual editor to sister projects is now paused. Work on the blocker bugs to Wikisource working has stalled as we've put resources elsewhere. We hope to come back to this before the end of calendar 2016.
 * We paused work on the single edit tab integration on other wikis in June 2016, pending the new wikitext editor release, and won't resume until after calendar 2016.

Contact
Discussion about major things happens on the ​wikitech-l mailing list. For specific IRC channels, see the team subpages linked above.