On 22 July 2013 18:35, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 22 July 2013 11:45, Tyler Romeo
<tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Putting all of the issues aside, I'd like to
know what the reason is for
hiding the preference. Let's assume for a second that VE does not hinder
users at all, that it's JS footprint is nonexistent, and that the
interface
changes aren't that bothersome (which, to an extend, are true). Even with
all that, what reason is there to purposely deprive users of the choice to
completely hide VE if they're sure they have no intention of using it?
Adding a preference to disable VisualEditor in normal user preferences
(rather than making it as easy as possible for gadgets to disable if people
so chose) would be a lie.
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Creating such a preference is a lie, and a lie I
cannot endorse.
… and yet, here I am endorsing this. :-)
Because I understand the level of concern that this matter is causing, I
am changing my mind on this. For the duration of VisualEditor's "beta"
period, there will be an opt-out user preference. This will be deployed
tomorrow morning, San Francisco time. Once VisualEditor is out of 'beta',
this preference will be removed.
As others have explained better than I, we think that users will be
ill-served by this opt-out, and I hope that as few users as possible will
choose this way to degrade their experience and deprive the community of
their input. Instead of endlessly arguing the point about this, I'd rather
my team and I spending our time working to make our sites better.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester