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We're super psyched to have Matthew join our team. :) It's great to be able to hire someone who A) is a Wikipedian B) a developer of community tools like ProveIt. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:12, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The VisualEditor opt-in is now available on enwiki: Preferences → Editing → Usability features → "Enable VisualEditor (only in the main namespace and the User namespace)". VPT announcement, thread. — Richardguk (talk) 04:37, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just enabled VisualEditor. I now have an extra tab on article space pages that allows me to select VisualEditor to edit the page. On selecting VisualEditor, you can edit the page similar to how you edit a MicroSoft word document e.g., to bold the text "foo", you need only select the text "foo" and press ctrl-b rather than use <b>foo</b>. What's even nicer, you can ctrl-z undo your edits while the VisualEditor is open, similar to MicroSoft word. VisualEditor doesn't appear to have a ctrl-y redo option. Looks like VisualEditor has trouble with transcluded elements and does not appear to see the page categories. Minor issues. Great work in bring VisualEditor to Wikipedia! -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:39, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

CTRL-z works already works in the old editing box. Not tried the new one yet - I'm stuck with IE7 on my office machine. We've been promised an upgrade for months! An optimist on the run! 11:46, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing out the extra tab, I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working! Λυδ α cιτγ 09:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Unless you're using Internet Explorer, Redo is Ctrl+Shift+Z rather than Ctrl+Y. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 10:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great job on the VisualEditor work! It's coming along nicely. Reference support is crucial; hopefully that'll be implemented soon. For the UploadWizard, it'd be great if it supported transferring freely licensed videos from Flickr (it'd have to do conversion in the backend) or maybe even free videos from YouTube which hosts its videos in WebM format. 155.201.35.58 (talk) 17:43, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- WebM support is very new still, so this might come sooner rather than later. That said, improving the UploadWizard is not a WMF-funding target, so it'll get done when it'll get done. - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 17:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]