On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well, that's disconcerting - is this actually all the edits with the > > Visual Editor? > > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=visualeditor > > > > I'll have to make a point of hammering on it more ;-) > > > > Yes the RecentChanges tag should be comprehensive. > > I think part of this is due to the "opt in" nature of the tool, and the > rest is due to some well-known limitations. It doesn't yet handle > templates, images, or references very well, and it's pretty slow on English > Wikipedia still. I think the VisualEditor and Parsoid team are aware of all > these, and have work in progress or on the near-term roadmap. > Yeah, I expect the overlap between "people who follow wikimedia news enough to know they can opt-in" and "people who do fairly complex formatting work" is pretty high. E.G. I have it installed, but rarely use it because most of my on-wiki work is fixing references, which the VE can't cope with yet (or, it's simply faster for me to do it by hand, as I can write markup in my sleep). Would it be helpful for the dev team to have more people using it on a regular basis? -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
