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VisualEditor
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Extending and improving the editing tools used at Wikimedia
Group: Contributors
Start: 2011-05-15
Team members: Editing team
For help installing and running VisualEditor, see Extension:VisualEditor.
For changes made on this wiki using VisualEditor, see the filters visualeditor and visualeditor-switched.

The VisualEditor project by the Editing team aims to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki. VisualEditor is available as a MediaWiki extension using the Parsoid project to supply HTML+RDFa; however, its core implementation can be run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, or Node.js.

As of mid-2017, it is available to all users here at MediaWiki.org and on almost all Wikipedias and Wikivoyages. On all other projects and languages it is available as an opt-in Beta Feature to logged-in users. VisualEditor is only available in some namespaces, including the main namespace (where this page is), but generally not in discussion namespaces.

More information about VisualEditor can be found on Wikimedia's blog and the FAQs. Please visit the main, multi-lingual VisualEditor Portal.

Original Rationale

The decline in new contributor growth was viewed as the single most serious challenge facing the Wikimedia movement. Visual Editor was built with the goal of removing avoidable technical impediments associated with Wikimedia's editing interface, as a necessary pre-condition for increasing the number of Wikimedia contributors. Subsequent research found no measurable gains over wikitext for new contributors.

Status

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History

  • Some level of exploration was done in 2010 by the Wikipedia Usability Initiative.
  • The 2011 product whitepaper published by the Wikimedia Foundation's strategic product team identified rich-text editing as one of the "Great Movement Projects". Work subsequently started in May 2011.
  • The 2011-12 Wikimedia annual plan, released July 2011, states a goal for VisualEditor: "First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012".
  • The 2012-13 Engineering Goals document sets a timeline for VisualEditor's development and deployment up to the end of June 2013.
  • The 2013–2014 Engineering Goals document lists the goals for that year.
  • VisualEditor is scheduled to be deployed across Wikimedia projects over the coming months. Below is the schedule as of May 2015:
Roll-out timeline (detailed list)
Week of… Launch Users Projects Status
Summer 2012 Phase 0 All users Mediawiki.org[1] Yes Done
1 July 2013 Logged-in users English Wikipedia (en)[2] Yes Done
15 July 2013 All users Yes Done
24 July 2013 Phase 1 Logged-in users 7 of the largest Wikipedias

Spanish (es),[3] French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) & Swedish (sv)[4]

Yes Done
29 July 2013 All users Yes Done
30 September 2013 Phase 2 Logged-in users 27 of the next largest Wikipedias

Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Modern Greek (el), Estonian (et), Basque (eu), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Croatian (hr), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Latvian (lv), Malay (ms), Neopolitan (nap), Norwegian - Nynorsk (nn), Norwegian - Bokmål (no), Sicilian (scn), Simple English (simple), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Venetian (vec), Volapük (vo), Waray-Waray (war)

Yes Done
7 October 2013 All users Yes Done
2 December 2013 Phase 3 All users 91 Wikipedias with all characters normally directly available to users

Acehnese (ace), Aymara (ay), Central Bikol (bcl), Bislama (bi), Banjar (bjn), Chavacano (cbk-zam), Chechen (ce), Chamorro (ch), Cheyenne (chy), Corsican (co), Kashubian (csb), Zazaki (diq), Emilian-Romagnol (eml), Extremaduran (ext), Fijian (fj), Faroese (fo), Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (frp), North Frisian (frr), Friulian (fur), Scottish Gaelic (gd), Hawai'ian (haw), Fiji Hindi (hif), Haitian (ht), Interlingua (ia), Ilokano (ilo), Ido (io), Lojban (jbo), Kongo (kg), Kikuyu (ki), Greenlandic (kl), Komi-Permyak (koi), Ripuarian (ksh), Cornish (kw), Ladino (lad), Lak (lbe), Ganda (lg), Limburgish (li), Ligurian (lij), Lombard (lmo), Banyumasan (map-bms), Malagasy (mg), Maori (mi), Minangkabau (min), Maltese (mwl), Erzya (myv), Nauruan (na), Low Saxon (nds), Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl), Novial (nov), Norman (nrm), Northern Sotho (nso), Chichewa (ny), Oromo (om), Pangasinan (pag), Kapampangan (pam), Papiamento (pap), Picard (pcd), Pennsylvania German (pdc), Norfuk (pih), Piedmontese (pms), Portuguese (pt), Quechuan (qu), Romansh (rm), Romani (rmy), Kirundi (rn), Aromanian (roa-rup), Tarantino (roa-tara), Kinyarwanda (rw), Northern Sami (se), Sango (sg), Samoan (sm), Shona (sn), Somali (so), Sranan (srn), Swazi (ss), Sesotho (st), Saterland Frisian (stq), Sundanese (su), Tongan (to), Tok Pisin (tpi), Tsonga (ts), Tumbuka (tum), Tahitian (ty), Tuvan (tyv), Veps (vep), West Flemish (vls), Kalmyk (xal), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo), Zeelandic (zea), Zulu (zu)

Yes Done
13 January 2014 Phase 4 All users 23 remaining Wikipedias with all characters normally directly available to users

Alemannic (als), Aragonese (an), Asturian (ast), Bavarian (bar), Belarusian (be), Belarussian Taraškievica (be-x-old), Bosnian (bs), Esperanto (eo), West Frisian (fy), Irish (ga), Javanese (jv), Latin (la), Luxembourgish (lb), Lithuanian (lt), Occitan (oc), Palatinate German (pfl), Romanian (ro), Scots (sco), Albanian (sq), Swahili (sw), Tswana (tn), Vietnamese (vi), Xhosa (xh)

Yes Done
November 2014 All users Tagalog (tl) Yes Done
27 November 2014 Logged-in users

Opt-in only

Available as a beta feature at the following projects (at all languages): Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikivoyage and Wikiversity Yes Done
30 March 2015 Phase 5 All users 53 Wikipedias with some characters not normally directly-available to users

Abkhazian (ab), Afrikaans (af), Akan (ak), Anglo-Saxon (ang), Avar (av), Azerbaijani (az), Bashkir (ba), Samogitian (bat-smg), Bambara (bm), Breton (br), Buryat (bxr), Crimean Tatar (crh), Old Church Slovonic (cu), Chuvash (cv), Welsh (cy), Lower Sorbian (dsb), Ewe (ee), Fula (ff), Võro (fiu-vro), Gagauz (gag), Guarani (gn), Hausa (ha), Upper Sorbian (hsb), Igbo (ig), Inupiak (ik), Icelandic (is), Karakalpak (kaa), Kabyle (kab), Kabardian (kbd), Karachay-Balkar (krc), Komi (kv), Kyrgyz (ky), Lezgian (lez), Lingala (ln), Latgalian (ltg), Moksha (mdf), Meadow Mari (mhr), Macedonian (mk), Mongolian (mn), Hill Mari (mrj), Maltese (mt), Nahuatl (nah), Navajo (nv), Ossetian (os), Rusyn (rue), Sakha (sah), Silesian (szl), Turkmen (tk), Tatar (tt), Udmurt (udm), Venda (ve), Walloon (wa), Wolof (wo)

Yes Done
2016 Phase 6a All users 14 Wikipedias with slightly more complex scripts

(Provisional list) Amharic (am), Buginese (bug), Min Dong (cdo), Cree (cr), Manx (gv), Hakka (hak), Armenian (hy), Georgian (ka), Pontic (pnt), Serbo-Croatian (sh), Tigrinya (ti), Mingrelian (xmf), Zhuang (za), Min Nan (zh-min-nan)

Yes Done
2016 Phase 6 All users 45 Wikipedias with complex characters inserted using Input Method Editors

Arabic (ar), Aramaic (arc), Egyptian Arabic (arz), Assamese (as), Behari (bh), Bengali (bn), Tibetan (bo), Bishnupriya (bpy), Cherokee (chr), Sorani Kurdish (ckb), Dhivehi (dv), Dzongkha (dz), Persian (fa), Gilaki (glk), Gothic (got), Gujarati (gu), Hindi (hi), Japanese (ja), Khmer (km), Kannada (kn), Korean (ko), Kashmiri (ks), Lao (lo), Malayalam (ml), Marathi (mr), Burmese (my), Mazanderani (mzn), Nepali (ne), Nepal Bhasa (new), Oriya (or), Punjabi (pa), Pali (pi), Saraiki (Western Punjabi) (pnb), Pashto (ps), Sanskrit (sa), Sindhi (sd), Sinhala (si), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Thai (th), Uyghur (ug), Urdu (ur), Wu (wuu), Classical Chinese (zh-classical), Cantonese (zh-yue)

Yes Done
Not yet scheduled Phase 7 All users 9 language variant Wikipedias

Gan (gan), Inuktitut (iu), Kazakh (kk), Kurdish (ku), Tachelhit (shi), Serbian (sr), Tajik (tg), Uzbek (uz), Chinese (zh)

Enabling VisualEditor by default for all users or for all logged-in users can be requested by contacting product manager James Forrester.

Notes

  1. ↑ Initially restricted to just the VisualEditor: namespace, later for all pages.
  2. ↑ Subsequently switched back to "opt-in" mode in September 2013 until September 2015.
  3. ↑ Subsequently switched back to "opt-in" mode in February 2014 until December 2015.
  4. ↑ German (de) and Dutch (nl) initially proposed, but withdrawn before full deployment due to community concerns.

Documentation

You can speak with us in our chat channel, #mediawiki-visualeditorconnect.

Related pages

For more information on VisualEditor and its design process, see these directory pages:

See also

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