On 06/20/2015 11:45 AM, Arlo Breault wrote:
On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Amir E.
Aharoni wrote:
There may be more - I'm still looking for
these.
I was reading the discussion on gradually enabling VE for new accounts
[3] and
Kww writes there,
"Further, we still have issues with stray nowiki tags being scattered
across articles.
Until those are addressed, the notion that VE doesn't cause extra work
for
experienced editors is simply a sign that the metrics used to analyze
effort were
wrong. Jdforrester, can you explain how a study that was intended to
measure
whether VE caused extra work failed to note that even with the current
limited use,
it corrupts articles at this kind of volume [4]? Why would we want to
encourage
such a thing?”
Makes me sad.
User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (Sherry Snyder) has noted there that User:Kww
might have been confused by the fact that the filter includes nowikis
added by editors during normal wikitext editing ( see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53421 ). In reality, the number of
nowikis from VE edits are a minor fraction of the nowiki entries there
(which I verified a couple days back by clicking through to the diffs in
the AbuseLog), and the couple of sources of those nowiki insertions
might have already been fixed as noted earlier in this thread.
All that said, yes, we do want to and will continue fixing any sources
of nowikis that Parsoid is introducing.
Last I looked, the edits from Visual Editor were still a trivially small
percentage of edits, much smaller than the "minor fraction" noted here.
Where is the actual percentage tracked these days?
KWW