Aaron Halfaker ran a study of whether VE affected new editor retention in May: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study

He didn't find any difference in short term survival or productivity between VE and wikitext. That said, you should still teach newcomers with VE--editor training sessions are a very different learning context than trying to learn the ropes independently.

J

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:46 AM, john cummings <mrjohncummings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all

Does anyone know of any information on editor retention rates based on whether the person used Visual Editor or Wikitext?

I'm sure there are many ways you could explore this subject, my specific interest is when running editor training would it be better to teach people to use VE or wikitext?

Many thanks

John

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