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CLs to announce VE's availability to a subset of Phase 6 wikis
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Per Amir's evaluation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93387#1757164 .
The 14 languages involved are Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Man, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, Min Nan, whose alphabets used to present challenges for integrating the software.

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• Elitre created this task.Oct 27 2015, 2:56 PM
• Elitre raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
• Elitre updated the task description. (Show Details)
• Elitre added a project: Community-Relations-Support.
• Elitre added subscribers: Trizek-WMF, Krenair, • Elitre and 2 others.
• Elitre moved this task from Backlog to To-do on the Community-Relations-Support board.Oct 28 2015, 10:07 AM

We'll need to

  1. discuss this with James
  2. get the complete list
  3. create target list for mass messaging.
• Elitre moved this task from To-do to In the works on the Community-Relations-Support board.Nov 13 2015, 3:03 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: StudiesWorld. · View Herald TranscriptNov 13 2015, 3:03 PM
• Elitre added a comment.EditedNov 23 2015, 2:47 PM

Target list now published at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/Phase_6.1 .

• Elitre added a comment.Nov 30 2015, 7:50 PM

We also made a placeholder thread to collect feedback from these wikis (will be linked from the first message we're sending them).

Jdforrester-WMF added a parent task: T116523: Enable VisualEditor by default for all users of some "easier" phase 6 Wikipedias.Dec 2 2015, 2:08 AM
• Elitre added a comment.Dec 2 2015, 12:25 PM

The first round of "please test VE" messages was sent today (example).

• Elitre moved this task from In the works to To-do on the Community-Relations-Support board.Dec 15 2015, 5:56 PM
• Elitre claimed this task.Dec 15 2015, 6:19 PM
• Elitre moved this task from To-do to Jan '16 on the Community-Relations-Support board.
• Elitre set Security to None.
• Elitre added a comment.Dec 15 2015, 6:35 PM

T96500 is also relevant here.

Qgil moved this task from Jan '16 to January-March 2016 on the Community-Relations-Support board.Jan 13 2016, 12:50 AM
• Elitre added a comment.Jan 15 2016, 6:26 PM

Sent another round of messaging to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/Phase_6.1 .

• Elitre added a project: Liaisons-January-2016.Jan 15 2016, 6:27 PM
• Elitre closed this task as Resolved.Jan 18 2016, 5:36 PM

VE will arrive there next week. We'll post a followup message and check that all is in order. FTR I believe Cherokee is missing from this group as it was categorised differently elsewhere.

• Elitre added a comment.EditedFeb 1 2016, 6:04 PM

This is now done. Also, I apologized to the Armenian Wikipedia for a mistake I made which meant they didn't get proper announcements about the rollout.

• Elitre updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 7 2016, 7:15 PM
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