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VisualEditor
Extending and improving the editing tools used at Wikimedia
Group:
Contributors
Start:
2011-05-15
Team members:
Editing team
Backlog:
#VisualEditor
For help installing and running VisualEditor, see
Extension:VisualEditor
For changes made on this wiki using VisualEditor, see the filters
visualeditor
and
visualeditor-switched
VisualEditor
is a reliable rich-text
editor
for HTML documents. It was created by the
Editing team
for
MediaWiki's HTML+RDFa
document format (generated by
Parsoid
) and is available as a
MediaWiki extension
. VisualEditor's
core implementation
is a standalone JavaScript library and can run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, or Node.js.
Edit #100,000,000 in VisualEditor was made in November 2022.
As of 2020, VisualEditor is enabled by default here on mediawiki.org and on most Wikipedia and Wikivoyage language editions. On remaining wikis, is available to logged-in users as an opt-in feature; since April 2023, this is directly, rather than as a
Beta Feature
. VisualEditor is generally not enabled for pages outside the content
namespaces
, such as discussion pages or template code.
More information about VisualEditor can be found on the
multi-lingual
VisualEditor Portal
, on
Wikimedia's blog
, and
the FAQ
. Information about VisualEditor's wikitext mode is at
2017 wikitext editor
Original rationale
VisualEditor portal
General
Leave feedback
2017 wikitext editor
VisualEditor on mobile
About
How to use VisualEditor
Keyboard shortcuts
Why are we building this?
VisualEditor rollouts
Frequently Asked Questions
User testing reports
Help with the launch
Update help pages
Add TemplateData
TemplateData tutorial
Help new users
TranslationCentral
Translate & localize documentation
How to take screenshots
translate
The decline in new contributor growth was viewed as the single most serious challenge facing the Wikimedia movement. VisualEditor 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.
Data
See
VisualEditor/Data
for an overview of the what we know about how people use and experience the visual editor (mobile and desktop).
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
2011–2012 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
2012–2013 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 was deployed to most users at most Wikimedia projects by the end of 2015. See
VisualEditor/Rollouts
for a list.
Enabling VisualEditor by default for all users or for all logged-in users can be requested by contacting the Editing team's product manager.
Core module
VisualEditor is a standalone program that can be run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, or
Node.js
that provides a visual editor for editing HTML5 pages. It is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser.
Here are some helpful links:
Standalone demo
Documentation
Git repository
GitHub mirror
Installation help
Developer documentation
Developer glossary
Getting started
Internals
Developer tutorial
Generated code documentation
Sequence diagram: Page Retrieval
Sequence diagram: Page Edit
You can speak with us in our chat channel,
#mediawiki-visualeditor
connect
Dashboards
Usage dashboard
on Superset (requires dev shell account)
Continuous Integration
Code review dashboard
Related pages
For more information on VisualEditor and its design process, see these directory pages:
Design portal
Planning and testing
Software
Feedback archives
Presentations
Usability
Forecasts
2015 Review of Process
Plans and Progress
Report
Design of Backlog
2016 Team Offsite and Retrospective
See also
A VisualEditor demo page/sandbox
Extension:VisualEditor
(including installation instructions)
Guide to hacking VisualEditor: VE gadgets
Parsoid
VisualEditor/Index
of related pages on several wikis
VisualEditor multilingual newsletter
, focused on WMF wikis
Results of the 2015 survey
Slash Commands
– Adds "slash commands", i.e., text shortcuts that start with a forward slash ("/") and trigger specific actions via the Visual Editor.
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