Last year's research[1] and associated discussion[2] shows that VE did not have an impact on new user retention. However the VE team has made a lot of progress on performance and functionality since then and the testing should be rerun when the team is ready.

-Toby

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/Results

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:27 AM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> What I want to know is this: If a new editor uses VE rather than the source
> editor, does she or he have a better chance to stick around as an editor.

Would rephrasing the above as 'do new editors using VE have a longer
span of continued contributions compared to new editors without VE' be
an accurate form of the question?


--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

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