[Wikimedia-l] a compromise proposal for visual editor dogfooding

[David Gerard]

On 3 August 2013 18:46, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> I wonder sometimes if maintaining help/documentation pages would be a
> sensible thing for WMF to have a (part?) time staffer working on, but
> I guess this gets into the muddy area of "paying people for volunteer
> tasks"


The trouble is (1) there's ten years' volunteer effort in the old
how-to pages, (2) the VE interface isn't even finished yet (I
certainly hope it isn't, anyway) (3) to the extent the VE needs a
manual, it's not a good interface.


- d.