{"id":1091,"date":"2013-06-28T07:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T07:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:35:38","slug":"go-and-test-the-visual-editor-its-meaningfully-testable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2013\/06\/28\/go-and-test-the-visual-editor-its-meaningfully-testable\/","title":{"rendered":"Go and test the Visual Editor. It’s meaningfully testable."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Visual Editor is live and in testing<\/a> on English Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

People are past the stage of shouting IT’S A DISASTER AND THE WHOLE PROJECT MUST BE SHUT DOWN (that was last week); it’s reached that sweet spot on the upslope of the logistic curve of progress<\/a> where the basic functionality is in place, it’s usable enough to beta properly, and all the little finicky bugs<\/a> are coming out. (“Yes, it edits now, but I WANT A PONY. A nice one, mind you.” “IF YOU CAN MAKE A PONY, A UNICORN IS TRIVIAL.” “YOU CALL THAT A UNICORN? YOU’VE GLUED A CORNETTO TO THE PONY.”) And the devs are actually keeping up with them. Holy crap, they’re successfully flying this beast TO THE MOON<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, experienced editors: please go test the visual editor on your gnarliest articles. Report any breakage, big or small<\/a>. Save a bad diff, self-revert then report the breakage. Give Oliver<\/a> something to do with his copious reserves{{cn}}<\/sup><\/i><\/font> of free time. (In between coming up with “cornetto unicorn.”) Update:<\/b> and please check and report problems with<\/a> newbies using the visual editor. (HT Nemo.)<\/p>\n

(The visual editor is somewhat annoying, but it works well enough that the bug reports are useful. I find it easier, if slower, for correcting a typo; harder for adding a sentence with a reference. But the main reason experienced users should be testing it is that it’s important<\/i><\/a> — and experienced users will give it the serious kicking it needs to get the bugs out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Visual Editor is live and in testing on English Wikipedia. People are past the stage of shouting IT’S A DISASTER AND THE WHOLE PROJECT MUST BE SHUT DOWN (that was last week); it’s reached that sweet spot on the upslope of the logistic curve of progress where the basic functionality is in place, it’s … Continue reading “Go and test the Visual Editor. It’s meaningfully testable.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-hB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}