2013/7/27 C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org:
Without fanning the flames unduly, I'll note that VE is already enabled by default for all registered users on de.wikipedia.org, and that the linked vote on the de wiki was just initiated today and has not yet even proceeded past the "do we think the question is well-formed enough to vote on" stage (please correct my German or bureaucracy-grokking if I'm wrong here).
Please note that a poll about the depoyment has just begun on dewiki:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/VisualEditor_Opt-in
Regards, Jürgen.