Greg Grossmeier wrote:
- On Tuesday VisualEditor team will enable an A/B test, where half of
new accounts created on English Wikipedia will get VisualEditor enabled by default. This is to test performance and features before the larger rollout in July.
As I commented at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/49604, the (apparent) lack of an easy means of opting out of this experiment and the increased frequency of severe VisualEditor-related bugs being reported recently both make it appear that an A/B test of this nature would be premature and potentially very damaging. Dirty diffs, inadvertent section removals, etc. are still common when using VisualEditor. Are we really expecting our newest users to be able to spot and correct these issues?
MZMcBride