The full timetable for the VisualEditor launch can be found below — but by the end of July 2013, we expect this to be available to users on almost all Wikipedia projects.
We know that there are many users who prefer editing the raw wikitext, finding it faster and more precise. Editing purely in wikitext will remain — we have absolutely no plans to remove it — so both editors will be accessible from the toolbar above each article, and you can select the traditional editor in your user preferences. Good news.]]>
And that’s not the only problem – 91% of Wikipedia editors are male and, of course, that is contributing to Wikipedia’s growing reputation as the home of the same sort of maladjusted and poor socialised individuals who inhabit various parts of the “open source” software world. That's not the rudest thing he says, either.]]>
To provide that help, we are releasing the Wikilinks Corpus: 40 million total disambiguated mentions within over 10 million web pages -- over 100 times bigger than the next largest corpus (about 100,000 documents, see the table below for mention and entity counts). Awesome.]]>
Wales sounded off on Friday:
"The Wikimedia Foundation has zero collaboration with the government of Kazakhstan." And more. ]]>
But while attending Wikimania Friday in Washington, DC -- the conference for the entire Wikimedia movement -- I saw one chart that seemed more dire.]]>