> Visual Editor was rolled out in 2013. Thing is, editors hated its bugginess so much that the roll-out was reverted shortly afterwards. (…) Why did the Visual

> Visual Editor was rolled out in 2013. Thing is, editors hated its bugginess so much that the roll-out was reverted shortly afterwards. (…) Why did the Visual Editor fail? Because it tries to deny the basic fact that Wikipedia is a program, not a word document. Eh, I can't really agree with this. VisualEditor rollout was indeed premature (critical features like template editing were developed literally days before it), but a year has passed and it's gone a long way since then. Haters still hate it, but personally I find it more pleasant to use than wikitext for many tasks. This was a really interesting read, though. I still this there's value in the WYSIWYG paradigm, even if we have to fall back to "IDE mode" for infoboxes and such (right now if you double-click a template, you're shown a key-value table to fill in; there's no live preview…). After all, most of the content of Wikipedia is text with some light formatting.