Forum:More illogical than Illogicopedia
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Has anyone yet taken notice of the rather disastrous new VisualEditor that has been introduced at Wikipedia? It's a near-failure. 
Sincerely, islandmonkey - go speak 17:38, 16 Jumbly 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's straight to 'edit source' for me. The VisEditor will likely mean an increase in vandalism too, I suspect some potential do-badders in the past were put off by the old-style edit screen. -- Ben Blade 19:09, 16 Jumbly 2013 (UTC)
- I have been talking with them on the talk page. Much as I hate Visual Editor, I think it could actually be a good idea - WP seems to have falling retention rate of editors and they have done a study thing that shows that the code is actually driving away potential useful contributors. I have reverted some vandalism done with this editor though, and 95% of established editors, including me, don't use it (have turned it off entirely; you can do that). I am hoping against hope that someone is actually keeping track of whether the vandalism rate is up. I can't do that - I split my time between too many wikis, and sometimes my real life.
- There has been quite some assumption of bad faith on the part of the MediaWiki developers. Saying they will be making money etc. I don't believe that bit but they have been a bit quick about rolling it out. There are so, so many bugs that need fixing. I'm not feeling very optimistic that they will be fixed within a reasonable amount of time.
- Benedict Blade - it is possible to entirely remove VisualEditor from what you see. You have to go to 'Gadgets' under 'Preferences'. The MediaWiki developers did a nice job of making that more obscure than it had to be, so I'm not surprised that you didn't realise you could do it. ❦ Flyingcat (meow?) 01:56, 17 Jumbly 2013 (UTC)
- But at least it's not as slow and annoying as Wikia's version. That's part of the reason I tend to stay away from Wikia wikis. I don't know why I ever bother editing them at all, actually. ❦ Flyingcat (meow?) 01:59, 17 Jumbly 2013 (UTC)