VisualEditor/Portal/gl

Dámoslle a benvida ao portal do editor visual, un novo xeito de editar a Wikipedia desenvolvido pola Fundación Wikimedia. A edición da Wikipedia necesitaba que a xente aprendese a usar o formato wiki, unha linguaxe bastante complexa, mesmo para facer pequenas correccións nun artigo. En 2001 isto era aceptable; en 2013, leva a que os editores marchen. O editor visual permite que as persoas editen sen ter que aprender o formato wiki, e agardamos que anime a que a xente contribúa na Wikipedia.

O calendario previsto para o lanzamento do editor visual pode consultarse embaixo, pero a finais de xullo de 2013 agardamos que estea dispoñible para os usuarios da maioría das wikipedias.

Acerca do editor visual
O editor visual é unha maneira "visual" de editar a Wikipedia, un novo sistema que permitirá que a xente contribúa sen ter que aprender o formato wiki. Estivo dispoñible opcionalmente como un lanzamento en fase "alfa" na Wikipedia en inglés desde decembro de 2012, en 16 outras linguas desde abril de 2013 e en case todas as outras linguas desde o comezo de xuño. Como se explica embaixo, agardamos telo dispoñible en case todas as wikipedias a finais de xullo, comezando pola Wikipedia en inglés o 1 de xullo.

Se ten interese en utilizar o editor visual, temos unha guía de uso, así como unha lista dos atallo de teclado comúns. Se ten interese en axudarnos no desenvolvemento, hai unha manchea de tarefas nas que pode colaborar. Publicaremos actualizacións regulares, que pode recibir directamente na súa páxina de conversa inscribíndose no noso boletín de novas.



Polo de agora, o editor visual ten numerosos erros; isto é inevitable. Se atopa algún problema ou erro, non dubide en informar na páxina de comentarios. Tamén hai algunhas áreas que aínda temos que construír por completo novas ferramentas. As limitacións actuais inclúen:


 * Slow to load — It will take some time for long, complex pages to load into the VisualEditor. In the future the software will be a lot faster, and will allow for the loading of larger pages.
 * Odd-looking — We currently struggle with making the HTML we produce look like what you are used to seeing, so styling and so on may look a little (or even very) odd. We're increasing the time we put into this, but so far our focus has been on making sure that the VisualEditor does not alter wikitext unexpectedly.
 * Incomplete editing — Some elements of "complex" formatting will display and let you edit their contents, but 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, we have only got VisualEditor to work in the most modern versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It does not work in very old versions of each browser, and does not work in Opera, although a volunteer is working on Opera support. Internet Explorer currently does not work, but we aim to have support for the latest versions of IE by the time we release the VisualEditor to a larger audience.
 * Articles and User pages only — The VisualEditor will only be enabled for the article and user namespaces (so you can make changes in a personal sandbox). In time, we will build out the kinds of specialised editing tools needed for non-articles, but our focus has been on articles.

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 the 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 when the VisualEditor is launched, 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 the VisualEditor.
 * Adding TemplateData to templates — The 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 acclimatised to Wikipedia.