<div dir="ltr"><div>OK. I'm slightly amused at the praise for enabling VisualEditor on
the OSM Wiki, when there was a huge backlash on the English and German
Wikipedias when VisualEditor was turned on and made the default editor
for non-logged-in and newly registered users:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor#Reception">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor#Reception</a><br><br></div>For
comparison, the backlash against VisualEditor (people
were complaining that it messed up templates, tables, and references)
is similar (though with more vitriol) to the one iD faced when it became OSM's default editor (where people
complained that it messed up relations and silently merged tags in combined ways).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Grant Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@firefishy.com" target="_blank">openstreetmap@firefishy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
<br>
Glad you like it. I enabled it 2 days ago.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/commit/8d3c08fa5ec0a351555df7629083c7f54ad262fb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/commit/8d3c08fa5ec0a351555df7629083c7f54ad262fb</a><br>
<br>
The Parsoid API is now supported, which should allow<br>
<a href="http://www.kiwix.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.kiwix.org/</a> to make an offline copy of the OSM wiki.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Grant<br>
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On 3 January 2016 at 22:39, Éric Gillet <<a href="mailto:gill3t.3ric%2Bosm@gmail.com">gill3t.3ric+osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I thought I missed the announcement, but looks like it was a secret gift<br>
> from the wiki sysadmins !<br>
><br>
> Thank you and have a good 2016 :)<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> 2016-01-03 23:02 GMT+01:00 Rob Nickerson <<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Not sure when this happened (some time recently) but I wanted to thank<br>
>> > our<br>
>> > wiki system admins for adding the VisaulEditor extension to the OSM<br>
>> > wiki.<br>
>> > For those that don't know the extension is a rich text editor for wiki's<br>
>> > and<br>
>> > came about following concern over declining new contributors to the<br>
>> > wikimedia projects. It has taken many years to develop this extension<br>
>> > but it<br>
>> > is great to see it now being used on the OpenStreetMap wiki (as well as<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > WikiMedia sites).<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If you have never edited a wiki page before now is the time to try it<br>
>> > out.<br>
>> > No longer do you have to remember the wiki syntax to make an edit :-)<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Rob<br>
>> ><br>
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