Very excited about this Yaron. Thank you!

-Rich

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From: MediaWiki-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Yaron Koren
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 8:29 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] New extension, VEForAll, enables VisualEditor for use in 
other textareas

Hi everyone,

I'm very excited to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension:
VEForAll. Its name stands for "VisualEditor For All", and it provides something 
that some people have been asking about for a long time - a way to incorporate 
the VisualEditor interface into textarea inputs other than the one in the 
standard VisualEditor tab.

The VEForAll extension works by providing a JavaScript function that, when 
called on a textarea input, adds the VisualEditor interface to it (if the 
VisualEditor extension is already installed). So the extension itself doesn't 
actually do anything - instead, it provides an API for other extensions to use. 
At the moment, two extensions can already make use of VEForAll if it's there: 
CommentStreams and Page Forms. (You need to use the latest version of either 
extension to get it working.)

You can read more about VEForAll, and download it, here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VEForAll

This extension has five credited authors, although most of the credit goes to 
the first two: Pierre Boutet and Clément Flipo of the consulting company Dokit, 
and the site Wikifab. I feel like I should give both the company and site a 
plug, in their honor:

http://www.dokit.io/en/about-us
https://wikifab.org/wiki/Accueil

Please feel free to try out the extension, and let us know on the talk page if 
you run into any problems.

-Yaron
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