Hi,

One thing I keep wondering about is how good the VisualEditor is at acquiring and preserving new editors.

A few months ago I wrote a project proposal here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Ideas/How_does_the_availability_of_VisualEditor_affect_the_rate_of_edits_and_editor_acquisition_in_different_languages%3F

See also its talk page for a bit of work on the subject by a Hebrew Wikipedia editor:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Ideas/How_does_the_availability_of_VisualEditor_affect_the_rate_of_edits_and_editor_acquisition_in_different_languages%3F

I didn't see much more follow-up on my proposal. Is anybody else working on anything like that?

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