I would start with the VE and introduce diffs and wikitext at the end of the class as advanced stuff. Understanding a wikitext diff is much easier than editing wikitext
Joe
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:10 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 30 July 2015 at 12:57, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new
editors, you might want to consider using visual editor.
I've considered it; and decided not to.
For one thing, when a new user sees a diff, either via a link on a talk page, an article's history, a user's contributions, or their own watchlist they are exposed to Wikicode, and so need a basic understanding of how it works.
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