On Sat, 11 May 2013 22:01:05 +0200, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
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.
As much as I love VE myself, this seems like an extremely bad idea given its current state.