Contributors

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)

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.

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

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