[OSM-talk] VisualEditor on the OSM wiki

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor#Reception

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).

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Glad you like it. I enabled it 2 days ago.
>
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/commit/8d3c08fa5ec0a351555df7629083c7f54ad262fb
>
> The Parsoid API is now supported, which should allow
> http://www.kiwix.org/ to make an offline copy of the OSM wiki.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
>
>
> On 3 January 2016 at 22:39, Éric Gillet <gill3t.3ric+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought I missed the announcement, but looks like it was a secret gift
> > from the wiki sysadmins !
> >
> > Thank you and have a good 2016 :)
> >
> >>
> >> 2016-01-03 23:02 GMT+01:00 Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Not sure when this happened (some time recently) but I wanted to thank
> >> > our
> >> > wiki system admins for adding the VisaulEditor extension to the OSM
> >> > wiki.
> >> > For those that don't know the extension is a rich text editor for
> wiki's
> >> > and
> >> > came about following concern over declining new contributors to the
> >> > wikimedia projects. It has taken many years to develop this extension
> >> > but it
> >> > is great to see it now being used on the OpenStreetMap wiki (as well
> as
> >> > the
> >> > WikiMedia sites).
> >> >
> >> > If you have never edited a wiki page before now is the time to try it
> >> > out.
> >> > No longer do you have to remember the wiki syntax to make an edit :-)
> >> >
> >> > Rob
> >> >
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