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[url]http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/02/wikimedia-rolls-out-its-wysiwyg-visual-editor-for-logged-in-users-accessing-wikipedia-articles-in-english/[/url]
[quote]The Wikimedia Foundation has finally enabled its long-awaited VisualEditor for all logged-in users on the English-language version of Wikipedia. The classic Wikitext source editor will remain available to edit both pages and page sections, and the organization stressed there are currently no plans to remove it.
This is because VisualEditor doesn’t yet support the broad range of functionality that Wikitext allows, and Wikimedia further notes it is aware some editors may prefer it. Nevertheless, the organization is hoping to the majority of editors will transition to VisualEditor, which is why it is slowly becoming the default.
“There are various reasons that lead existing and prospective contributors not to edit; among them, the complexity of wiki markup is a major issue,” Wikimedia explains. “One of VisualEditor’s goals is to empower knowledgeable and good-faith users to edit and become valuable members of the community, even if they’re not wiki markup experts. We also hope that, with time, experienced editors will find VisualEditor useful for some of their editing tasks.”[/quote]
Seems kinda useful for editors like my self.
WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get."
It's a text editor that indicates that text will have a certain formatting by showing it with that formatting.
If I [B]bolded[/B] text, and it appeared bold in the editor instead of being surrounded by [noparse][B][/B][/noparse] tags, the editor would be WYSIWYG.
[editline]2nd July 2013[/editline]
just an explanation for those who may be confused by the unexplained acronym
[QUOTE=The golden;41281678]It gives the explanation right in the first few sentences in the article.[/QUOTE]
nobody reads the articles in SH
edit: also, no it really doesn't
I'll stick to the non-shit source mode, thank you very much
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;41281824]I'll stick to the non-shit source mode, thank you very much[/QUOTE]
Good for you, this isn't for you it's for people who requested to be able to edit Wikipedia pages and input their knowledge on a field of work that doesn't and hasn't needed you to be familiar with something like this.
I bet a lot of professionals who have good info but are technologically inept will love this.
I'm amazed it took this long, but I guess they're quite short of funds?
i have a couple of old WMF servers, they're a pretty cool organization
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;41281933]I'm amazed it took this long, but I guess they're quite short of funds?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/wiki-copy.jpg[/img]
Nah.
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