Steven Walling wrote:
One thing we could experiment with is turning on VisualEditor as the default for new people who've just signed up.
I won't call it "wikitext corruption," but the current (live) version of VisualEditor is actively harming articles by inserting pawns into them:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/48346 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=553360286&oldid=540708795
Until issues like this are completely resolved, VisualEditor use should be decreased, not increased, in my opinion.
MZMcBride