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.
One thing we could experiment with is turning on VisualEditor as the default for new people who've just signed up. We'd need to do this carefully with guidance from James/Trevor et. al., and with a close eye on the conversion rate. At the very least we could run a few remote usability tests to see if it made a positive difference or just totally confused people. My team could perhaps tackle this as part of our work on the "Getting Started" workflow we're presenting to newly-registered folks on English Wikipedia.
Steven