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# VisualEditor
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VisualEditor provides a visual editor for wiki pages. It is written in
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JavaScript and runs in a web browser.
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It uses the Parsoid parser to convert wikitext documents to annotated HTML
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which the VisualEditor is able to load, modify and emit back to Parsoid at
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which point it is converted back into wikitext.
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For more information about these projects, check out the [VisualEditor][]
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and [Parsoid][] pages on mediawiki.
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## Developing and installing
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For information on installing VisualEditor on a local wiki, please
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see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
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For information about running tests and contributing code to VisualEditor,
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see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md). Patch submissions are reviewed and managed with
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[Gerrit][]. There is also [API documentation][] available for the
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VisualEditor.
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## Terminology
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* Apex: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Apex
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* CE: ContentEditable
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* DM: Data model
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* Invocation: Here the act of calling a template from a page, visible as e.g. `{{reflist}}` in the wikitext.
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* MW: MediaWiki
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* Page: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI/Layouts/Booklets_and_Pages
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* Parameter: A template parameter. Can be known (i.e. documented via TemplateData) or unknown.
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* Part: A template-level entity in a transclusion, i.e. either a template, template placeholder, or wikitext snippet.
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* SA: Standalone
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* Template: See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates
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* Transclusion: A sequence of one or more template invocations, possibly mixed with raw wikitext snippets.
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* UI: User interface
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* VE: VisualEditor
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* WT: Wikitext
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[VisualEditor]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
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[Parsoid]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
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[API documentation]: https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/
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[Gerrit]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit
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