[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 <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
