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VisualEditor
Extension name VisualEditor
About this article / disclaimer [[Has about meta information::The VisualEditor project aims to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki. [...] The extension relies on the separate nodeJS-based Parsoid parser service to be up and running in order to edit pages. Stable release is planned for 2014.]]
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Last release date (as of 2014/06/20!)
Last version number 0.1.0 (as of June 2014)
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Last edited 2014/06/20

The MediaWiki Visual Editor (operational since 2013 and more fully deployed on Wikipedia since 2014) is a Wysiwyg editor. It requires two components:

MediaWiki 1.23 installation notes

  • Upgrade to the latest version
cd installdir
git pull
Download and install the extension
cd installdir
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.git
cd VisualEditor
git submodule update --init
backtrack to an older version !!
git checkout REL1_23
Download and install the parsoid

This depends on your OS. For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS you cannot use the official distro as explained in the official setup documentation.

Firstly edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://parsoid.wmflabs.org:8080/debian wmf-production/

Then get a different NodJS first

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.10*
nodejs --version # should now print v0.10.x