On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 01:01:05PM -0700, Steven Walling 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.
Actually, if you wanted to really streamline the copyediting tasks, you could
just link to the veaction=edit version of the edit form rather than the page
itself, maybe with a special token that VE could use to notify the user that
they were editing the page, instead of the default notification that just says
"hey, you're using VisualEditor", which is probably not the most helpful
text
for a totally-brand-new user.
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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