Project:VisualEditor testing/Welcome

In progress-content Please leave alone! Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 23:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to the Visual editor demonstration pages!

What is this?
This is a demonstration page using the new Visual editor. That means that you can edit it using a WYSIWYG-like browser-native editing environment, and not have to learn our special markup language. You can read more about this in the Wikimedia blog's [//blog.wikimedia.org/blog post about the June 2012 releases], and the FAQs.

What works?
Right now, we only support a small part of wikitext's functionality. In general, the visual editor supports text in paragraphs, basic text markup, internal and external links, ordered and unordered lists and headings. There's a demonstration page with some of each of the cases that should work. For the technical, there's [[Visual editor/Node types|a formal list of all "node types" currently supported].

This is just a prototype, and we have focussed on making it stable rather than covering lots of features poorly. We will be adding new features rapidly — we hope to push new changes live every two weeks or so. To help us prioritise which features to work on when, we’d love your thoughts on our feedback page to help guide our work for you.

For whom should it work?
In short: modern mainstream desktop browsers. In terms of which particular browsers it should work in, we think that the current major version of the major four desktop browsers — Google Chrome (19), Mozilla Firefox (13), Microsoft Internet Explorer (9) and Apple Safari (5) — should all work fine.

Mobile support is something we're obvious going to include, but right now we haven't tested it properly - feedback would be welcome. We think there should be a serious discussion about which browsers we should and should not support, bearing in mind our limited resources but also our goal in making editing Wikimedia projects as easy and open to all as possible, and we would welcome your input.