Hoi,
was happy to learn that we made progress. Now I learn that there is always
another rationalisation why "it is not good enough for me and for newbies".
I am past the phase of "it is not good enough for me" and I stopped editing
Wikipedia. Just a thought to reconsider assumptions.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 July 2015 at 15:09, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
[copy of my reply on the original list]
I've considered it; and decided not to.
For one thing, when a new user sees a diff, either via a link on a
talk page, an article's history, a user's contributions, or their own
watchlist they are exposed to Wikicode, and so need a basic
understanding of how it works.
On 30 July 2015 at 13:00, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
Date: 30 July 2015 at 12:57
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach
editathons
To:
If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new
editors, you might want to consider using visual editor. I spoke to
some of the WMF people at Wikimania and apparently the issue of it
running very very slowly on old kit has recently been largely
addressed. I've pointed out in the past that as long as that bug was a
"won't fix" you couldn't promote Visual Editor at outreach editathons
because even if all the laptops look pretty new, there could well be
someone present using a borrowed laptop and intending to use an old PC
at home. Since we really can't start an editathon asking the attendees
if they all use new computers at home, and then reverting to the
classic editor if someone says their machine was bought in 2010 I and
several others have been ignoring the Visual Editor for the last
couple of years.
I have just run a quick test on this myself using a friend's old PC
and V/E does now work, though it is still a little slower than the
classic editor.
Regards
Jonathan / WereSpielChequers
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