I would start with the VE and introduce diffs and wikitext at the end of the class as advanced stuff. Understanding a wikitext diff is much easier than editing wikitext
Joe On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:10 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 30 July 2015 at 12:57, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > If anyone is still running outreach editathons to try and recruit new > editors, you might want to consider using visual editor. > > 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. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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