The simplest way of learning wikicode (at least for those not previously
familiar with html) is by imitation. When writing new articles, people at
editothons understand the idea very easily. Making changes in existing
article is another matter: if that's the goal, VE works better. (and I say
that
Just noting that there are ongoing discussions on Lila's (not Leila's) talk
page about the relative merits of Flow, wikimarkup, VE, improved
wikimarkup, or some mix of options for talk pages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LilaTretikov_(WMF)
Pine
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Leila Z
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Jonathan Morgan
wrote:
> Aaron Halfaker ran a study of whether VE affected new editor retention in
> May:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study
>
> He didn't find any difference in short term s
Thank you for sharing your very illuminating thoughts, Kerry. Indeed
it should be the most compelling advantage of the VE that people after
a while of inactivity don't have to learn wikicode again. I am curious
how research will tackle the multiplicity of factors involved.
The newbies assuming that
On the edit training session front, I can report on the sample size of 1 VE
edit training session in mid August, where the two trainees both aged 60+ took
to editing relatively quickly in under an hour, which compares favourably with
the half day to a day it often takes to cover the same ground
Aaron Halfaker ran a study of whether VE affected new editor retention in
May:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study
He didn't find any difference in short term survival or productivity
between VE and wikitext. That said, you sh
Hi all
Does anyone know of any information on editor retention rates based on
whether the person used Visual Editor or Wikitext?
I'm sure there are many ways you could explore this subject, my specific
interest is when running editor training would it be better to teach people
to use VE or wikite
