Hi Amir --

Because VE is not widely rolled out and is controversial, we haven't spent a lot of time studying it after the initial rollout in 2013. AFAIK, that team is working on performance and functionality issues and I haven't heard anything about additional rollouts. Until we have a plan for this, I don't think we're going to spend a lot of time on VE studies.

I'd reach out to James F & co to get more information on their current focus on performance; certainly we'll continue to work with that team when the roadmap is clear.

-Toby

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

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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