VisualEditor/Data
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This page contains what we know about how people use and experience the visual editor (mobile and desktop).
For information about where the the visual editor is and is not available at Wikimedia wikis, visit VisualEditor/Rollouts.
Timeline
[edit]2024
[edit]2023
[edit]2022
[edit]- VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default#A/B test results (A/B test ran at 20 Wikipedias from 1 November 2019 through 26 September 2022)
2021
[edit]2020
[edit]2019
[edit]2018
[edit]2017
[edit]2016
[edit]2015
[edit]- Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/November 2015 follow-up
- Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 Study
2014
[edit]2013
[edit]- Research: Visual Editor impact on anonymous users (July 2013)
- Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/June 2013 Study
Quantitive experiments
[edit]Analyses to synthesize here...
- Visual Editor Research Project. See "Previous VE Research Review" section.
- VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default#A/B test results
- T227338: Test visual editor as the default mobile editor on select wikis
- Section editing on mobile VE AB test
- The percentage of edits people who are new (<100 total edits) make to Wikipedia with the visual editor: https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/455.
- The percentage of visual editor edits as a percentage of all Wikipedia Main namespace edits: https://superset.wikimedia.org/r/456
- Superset dashboard: https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/dashboard/101/.
- Visual editor on mobile report (2018)
Qualitative feedback
[edit]Feedback to synthesize here...
- Mobile contribution research report (2019). See slide 66.
- Mobile visual editor usability testing report (2018)
About
[edit]The visual editor is a rich-text editing interface and platform for MediaWiki.
The project started with the goal of making it easier for people who are new to successfully contribute to Wikimedia projects by offering an editing experience newcomers would intuitively understand.
Over time, as people came to value and expect rich-text editing capabilities, the visual editor began evolving into a platform that now powers a range of experiences that include: