On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Emily Blanchard <[email protected]>wrote:
> Congratulations! Looks good with lots of hard work behind it! > Yes, this looks simply great. SJ Emily Blanchard > Talent Acquisition Team > Wikimedia Foundation > eblanchard@wikimedia. <[email protected]>org > Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home > Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse > Join Us: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us > Developers Join the Fun: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share inthe > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) > > has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis. > > > > Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on > > Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. > Think > > of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview > upcoming > > changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their > > feedback. > > > > This first worldwide release includes these features: > > * Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7) > > * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3) > > * Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4) > > * VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - > > see below) > > * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - > see > > below) > > (Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where > it > > was already available, but not enabled by default.) > > > > We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know > > what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features > > program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on > their > > respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any > > technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). > > > > We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, > > 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10) > > > > Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program > > possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a > > better experience for all our users around the world. > > > > Enjoy, > > > > > > Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams > > > > > > > > (1) About Beta Features: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer > > > > (2) About Media Viewer v0.1: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer > > > > (3) About Typography Refresh: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update > > > > (4) About Nearby Pages: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages > > > > (5) About Visual Editor Opt-in: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General > > > > (6) About VisualEditor Formulæ: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae > > > > (7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo > > (This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive > experience. > > It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in > early > > December.) > > > > (8) Discuss Beta Features: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features > > > > (9) Report a Bug: > > > > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures > > > > (10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > > > > > P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their > > personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style > > page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line > > by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the > > quotes). > > > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > > > > Fabrice Florin > > Product Manager, Multimedia > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
