On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Newcomers with the VisualEditor were ~43% less likely to save a
> single edit than editors with the wikitext editor (x^2=279.4,
> p<0.001), meaning that Visual Editor presented nearly a 2:1 increase
> in editing difficulty."

For the record, this datapoint included in the draft (!) analysis was
due to faulty instrumentation. The correct numbers show only a
marginally significant difference between VisualEditor and wikitext
for an edit within 72 hours [1], with the caveats already given in my
earlier response.

Erik

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/Results#Editing_ease



-- 
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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