On 25 April 2015 at 04:11, David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com wrote:
As I cannot use it consistently myself without making errors, I'm not going to teach people the visual editor. I've done quite nicely teaching beginners to use the wiki syntax, by imitating what they see.
When did you last use it? I ask because I just started using it again after a long while not, and it's *ridiculously* better now than it was in its first six months. It's now at the sort of quality where I'd be enormously happy to put it in front of people, as it wasn't two years ago.
Also, it is the only sane way to edit tables. (The amazing thing about wikitext for tables is that it's actually worse than the plain HTML it replaced.) I expect your newbies will be less than pleased if they ever have to add or remove a table column and only later discover that the VE makes this a near-trivial task.
- d.