Last year's research[1] and associated discussion[2] shows that VE did not have an impact on new user retention. However the VE team has made a lot of progress on performance and functionality since then and the testing should be rerun when the team is ready.
-Toby [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/Results On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:27 AM, sankarshan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I want to know is this: If a new editor uses VE rather than the > source > > editor, does she or he have a better chance to stick around as an editor. > > Would rephrasing the above as 'do new editors using VE have a longer > span of continued contributions compared to new editors without VE' be > an accurate form of the question? > > > -- > sankarshan mukhopadhyay > <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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