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Current project status?

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AnonymusGdpr (talkcontribs)

When browsing through the various documentation pages, it seems as if development has been suspended two years ago. Sorry for the maybe silly question, but what is the current status of the VE? Are there plans for relaunching and further development? Or am I completely wrong and the VE is alive and healthy, just the documentation a little bit outdated?

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

What exactly makes you think that development has been suspended? :) Documentation updates are welcome if you find something outdated!

AnonymusGdpr (talkcontribs)

It's just what I am worrying about when viewing ...

and so on. It is all a little bit difficult to understand for s.o. outside the WMF and/or developer team.

I might be completely wrong - alright then, the better. We are just a small private wiki and have installed the VE (which is "still experimental" for outside Wikimedia, as I read) to launch for a usability test. I would not appreciate investing time in testing and asking for support, if I'll hear it will be ceased afterwards. On the other hand, outdated pages might be a manpower bottleneck just the same as with our contributors ...

Finally, the Talk pages consultation 2019 and look to me as if there were bigger problems the WMF has to deal with, than some minor VE bugs and requests.

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

VE (which is "still experimental" for outside Wikimedia, as I read)

Correct. The Foundation's budget priorities don't align with us making the epic re-engineering of VE into a state that it's as easy to install as the rest of the MediaWiki, and so it would be irresponsible for us to recommend it to low-end third party users.

Note that there's no-one who is paid by the Foundation to provide support to anyone for any part of MediaWiki, core or extensions, let alone VE. The support that do people get is generally either staff working in their personal time, or other members of our wonderful developer community, both volunteers and those paid by other organisations.

To help the team out, I have updated the three old status systems to explain to people that the are obsolete , noted that there aren't any VE-specific engineering update systems any more , and removed the reference to when the 2017 editor's integration last changed . Thanks for spotting the issues, and sorry it caused you concern!

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