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But that's not what's presented by default. I just tried again and got a popup asking me to switch (not sure why that didn't show up first time around), but the
by fredley 9y ago
But that's not what's presented by default. I just tried again and got a popup asking me to switch (not sure why that didn't show up first time around), but the default button for the popup ('Start Editing') takes you to the old interface.
- sshine 9y agoAlso, getting the visual editor back once you say no thanks doesn't seem trivial. I had to look up how. My guess is that regular contributors hardly use it, and its purpose is mostly symbolic rather than practical.
- fredley 9y agoHow I would love to see the data on how many edits submitted from the WYSIWYG tool are/aren't reverted.
- tgr_ 9y agoSlightly less than with the text editor: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/November_2015_follow-up https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_ef...
- DanBC 9y agoI just tried in a private window, and got this: https://imgur.com/a/isTAw https://imgur.com/a/isTAw I guess this just proves OP's point: Wikipedia has been struggling to introduce visual editing because the current editing userbase rejected it.