On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Well, that's disconcerting - is this actually all the edits with the Visual Editor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilt...
I'll have to make a point of hammering on it more ;-)
Yes the RecentChanges tag should be comprehensive.
I think part of this is due to the "opt in" nature of the tool, and the rest is due to some well-known limitations. It doesn't yet handle templates, images, or references very well, and it's pretty slow on English Wikipedia still. I think the VisualEditor and Parsoid team are aware of all these, and have work in progress or on the near-term roadmap.
Yeah, I expect the overlap between "people who follow wikimedia news enough to know they can opt-in" and "people who do fairly complex formatting work" is pretty high. E.G. I have it installed, but rarely use it because most of my on-wiki work is fixing references, which the VE can't cope with yet (or, it's simply faster for me to do it by hand, as I can write markup in my sleep).
Would it be helpful for the dev team to have more people using it on a regular basis? -- phoebe