[Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

[James Forrester]

On 30 July 2013 08:02, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 July 2013 15:44, Ziko van Dijk <vandijk at wmnederland.nl> wrote:
>
> > It's interesting how an essentially social question (being welcoming to
> new
> > people by a Visual editor) turns quickly into a debate on software.
>
> .nl has yet to experience the software in question, and the social
> issues surrounding it ...
>

VisualEditor has been enabled as an alpha on nlwiki for ​testing since May,
same as another 15 wikis, actually. But yes, there's a substantive
difference between the usage of the software in a small number of
knowingly-testing edits by experienced users (who normally want to do
relatively-edge cases) and actual real-world usage in exploring the social,
design and technical issues.

​J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester