Hoi,
was happy to learn that we made progress. Now I learn that there is always
another rationalisation why "it is not good enough for me and for newbies".
I am past the phase of "it is not good enough for me" and I stopped editing
Wikipedia. Just a thought to reconsider assumptions.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 July 2015 at 15:09, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> [copy of my reply on the original list]
>
> I've considered it; and decided not to.
>
> For one thing, when a new user sees a diff, either via a link on a
> talk page, an article's history, a user's contributions, or their own
> watchlist they are exposed to Wikicode, and so need a basic
> understanding of how it works.
>
>
> On 30 July 2015 at 13:00, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com>
> > Date: 30 July 2015 at 12:57
> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] visual Editor is now worth using in outreach
> editathons
> > To:
> >
> >
> > If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new
> > editors, you might want to consider using visual editor. I spoke to
> > some of the WMF people at Wikimania and apparently the issue of it
> > running very very slowly on old kit has recently been largely
> > addressed. I've pointed out in the past that as long as that bug was a
> > "won't fix" you couldn't promote Visual Editor at outreach editathons
> > because even if all the laptops look pretty new, there could well be
> > someone present using a borrowed laptop and intending to use an old PC
> > at home. Since we really can't start an editathon asking the attendees
> > if they all use new computers at home, and then reverting to the
> > classic editor if someone says their machine was bought in 2010 I and
> > several others have been ignoring the Visual Editor for the last
> > couple of years.
> >
> > I have just run a quick test on this myself using a friend's old PC
> > and V/E does now work, though it is still a little slower than the
> > classic editor.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jonathan / WereSpielChequers
> >
> >
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