Be interesting to see an update on the results of the impact on new editors. At least the analysis was honest and determined that VE actually did make it worse for new editors compared with the old editor.Vigilant wrote:James Forrester takes a turn in the barrel.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_off ... 2014-06-19
Russavia heckles and jayvdb tries, in vain, to get some straight answers while Maggie Dennis and Elitre babble inanely.
TL;DR - VE is used by very few people even two years after deployment.
Some interesting pages fall out of the discussion:
Charts, charts and more charts about VE
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor
A list of victims
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Rollouts
Note that the Dutch, English, German and Spanish wikis do not have VE enabled "by default".
What percentage of total edits and total article count are those four against the rest of the pile of little wikis?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc ... rs/Results
The date of the experiment was about a year ago, and it would be interesting to see if the results of this could be correlated to any change in attitude from "force the bastard in and fuck 'em!" to "Shhh! If we keep our heads down and don't argue too much people might not notice that it is a steaming pile of do-do's"