VisualEditor/Portal/sco

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 haes been available aes an opt-in "alpha" release oan the Ingils-leid Wikipædia sin Dizember 2012, in 14 mair leids sin April 2013, n awmaist aw ither leids sin the beginnin o Juin. We expect tae mak it available til awmaist aw Wikimedia Foundation wikis bi the end o 2014.

We'll be releasin regulair status updates at Mediawiki.org.

Using VisualEditor
If you're interested in using VisualEditor, 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:


 * Slow to load — It will take some time for long, complex pages to load into VisualEditor. In the future the software will be a lot faster, and will allow for the loading of larger pages.
 * Incomplete editing — Some elements of complex formatting will display and let you edit their contents, but will not let users edit their structure or add new entries – such as tables or definition lists. Adding features in this area is one of our priorities.
 * Limited browser support — Right now, VisualEditor only works in the most modern versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It does not work in very old versions of any browser. Support for Opera is limited. Internet Explorer currently does not work, but we are working on adding support for versions 9, 10, and 11 of Internet Explorer.
 * Most content pages, not talk pages — VisualEditor is only enabled for some namespaces. At most Wikipedias, VisualEditor can be used on articles, User:, File:, Help: and Category: pages.  VisualEditor is not currently available for Wikipedia: pages or any talk pages.

Because of these limitations, and inevitable bugs, we recommend that users click "" before saving the page, and report any problems they encounter.

How to help out
For VisualEditor to be as good as it can be, there are a lot of things we need help with. Obviously, one big area is using the software, finding bugs and reporting them, but there are many other tasks as well. These include:


 * 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 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 do try and spend some time on the help desk, or in the IRC help channel, to help these newcomers become acclimatized to Wikipedia.