Hi,
there is a famous quote on courage by Winston Churchill, a British Prime
Minister, who once wisely said: "Courage is what it takes to stand up
and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Over the weekend, more than 440 editors of the German Wikipedia took
part in an RfC-like process ("Umfragen") at
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/VisualEditor_Opt-in>
and voted against the activation of the VisualEditor for anonymous
users, asking the WMF to revert to an opt-in phase instead of the
currently existing opt-out.
This is yet another signal coming from the community that there is
something very broken about the process in which VisualEditor is being
rolled out. Most of the criticism has been ignored so far, but on the
other hand, we haven't yet seen such an enormous community objection
against the VisualEditor anywhere.
Let us therefore use this opportunity, and have the courage to sit down
and listen. Or, perhaps, in the wiki spirit, let's edit this quote, and
let us sit down and talk.
And, together, let's learn a lesson from this, and correct the errors so
that they don't become mistakes.
Tomasz