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 should still teach newcomers with VE--editor training sessions are a very different learning context than trying to learn the ropes independently. J On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:46 AM, john cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 wikitext? > > Many thanks > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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