VisualEditor
VisualEditor (VE) is a project developed by the Wikimedia Foundation together with Wikia.[2] It is similar to a WYSIWYG editor, and is available as a MediaWiki extension. The Beta version of this extension was enabled on Mediawiki.org and other larger Wikipedia in July 2013 by default, but users could decide to opt-out.
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 VisualEditor's text formatting menu | |
| Developer(s) | Wikimedia Foundation and Wikia, Inc. |
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| Written in | JavaScript, Node.js, PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | MediaWiki extension |
| Type | Wiki |
| License | MIT[1] |
| Website | www |
VisualEditor Media
'Editing makes me feel stupid' - user tests commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation from 2009 which demonstrate the difficulty that ordinary users were having with editing wikitext, MediaWiki's markup language.
In a presentation from Wikimania 2013, the team developing the software presented it to attendees.
References
- ↑ LICENSE.txt Archived 2018-01-12 at the Wayback Machine, VisualEditor source code repository, phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/
- ↑ Wikimedia releases updated prototype for simplified visual editor (22 June 2012).
Other websites
- MediaWiki VisualEditor
- MediaWiki Extension: VisualEditor
- Help:VisualEditor - Community Central
- What you see is Wiki - Questioning WYSIWYG in the Internet Age
- MediaWiki alternative parsers
- Building a Visual Editor for Wikipedia
