VisualEditor/Testing Non-Latin Characters Input and Behavior



We are planning a VisualEditor testing sprint on January 30 focusing on non-Latin characters input and behavior. Special orientation and support to testers will be offered through all the week, starting on January 28.

The VisualEditor project aims to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki. It can be tested already at the English Wikipedia: see Wikipedia:VisualEditor.

You can learn more about manual testing at the Features testing pages.

Who

 * Current or new wikipedia editors using non-Latin character sets routinely e.g. العربية, 한국어, हिन्दी, עברית, 日本語, Русский, 中文 and more.
 * People interested in accessibility.
 * People interested in localization.

What
We are interested in two areas primarily:


 * How the editor behaves upon inserting, deleting, changing, and otherwise manipulating all sorts of text within the pages being edited.
 * How non-Latin characters and strings may or may not affect the behavior of the VisualEditor.

For example, there is an unsubstantiated report that strings from different non-Latin languages inserted into a page and saved with Visual Editor may cause loss of data in text elsewhere in the page. Finding and verifying such issues is important.

Background
VisualEditor has a number of automated tests. To oversimplify, those tests check a large number of wiki pages by examining each one, loading into the Visual Editor, saving the page, and comparing the original page to the saved page. This is a valuable exercise and has pointed up a number of issues. But there are important aspects of Visual Editor not checked by these automated tests.

Where

 * Kickoff on IRC #wikimedia-dev Jan 28 2013.
 * Do we need this? What about a blog post agreed with Guillaume to be published on Jan 28?--Qgil (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Test documentation and discussion on mediawiki.org pages.
 * What links exactly?--Qgil (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Test environment on English Wikipedia
 * What test environment exactly?--Qgil (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * A labs instance dedicated to Visual Editor testing should be available for situation where production Wikipedia may not be desirable.
 * To be decided asap. It should be either English Wikipedia or a Labs instance, but not both.--Qgil (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

How

 * Visual Editor Non Latin Test Charters
 * Sign up to hear more about test events like this one Groups/Proposals/Features testing
 * How to report a bug
 * Existing bugs for VE i18n issues https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=33077&hide_resolved=1
 * How to enable Visual Editor in English Wikipedia (and other preferences)