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class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Support</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Support-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Research_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Research_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Research results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Research_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%81%E0%A7%B1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%B0" title="ভিজুৱেলএডিটৰ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ভিজুৱেলএডিটৰ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizu%C3%A1ln%C3%AD_editor" title="Vizuální editor – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Vizuální editor" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="VisualEditor" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="ویرایشگر دیداری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویرایشگر دیداری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EA%B0%81%ED%8E%B8%EC%A7%91%EA%B8%B0" title="시각편집기 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="시각편집기" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="VisualEditor" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="VisualEditor" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC" title="ビジュアルエディター – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ビジュアルエディター" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%B0" title="ਵਿਜ਼ੂਅਲਐਡਿਟਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਵਿਜ਼ੂਅਲਐਡਿਟਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="VisualEditor" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor" title="VisualEditor – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="VisualEditor" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visuaalinen_muokkain" title="Visuaalinen muokkain – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Visuaalinen muokkain" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF" title="காட்சிசார்த் தொகுப்பி – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="காட்சிசார்த் தொகுப்பி" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk 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Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="可视化编辑器 (MediaWiki)" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="wb-langlinks-edit wb-langlinks-link"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q14064660#sitelinks-wikipedia" title="Edit interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Edit links</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/VisualEditor" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Article</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" 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The reason given is: it still is used a decade on, but the article is stuck in the 2010s.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> <a href="/wiki/Software_extension" class="mw-redirect" title="Software extension">extension</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">Wiki</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/MIT_License" title="MIT License">MIT</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor">www<wbr />.mediawiki<wbr />.org<wbr />/wiki<wbr />/VisualEditor</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>VisualEditor</b> (<b>VE</b>) is an <a href="/wiki/Online_rich-text_editor" title="Online rich-text editor">online rich-text editor</a> for <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a>-powered wikis that provides a direct visual way to edit pages based on the <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">"what you see is what you get"</a> principle. It was developed by the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> in partnership with <a href="/wiki/Fandom_(website)" title="Fandom (website)">Fandom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheVerge_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheVerge-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2013, it was enabled by default on several of the largest <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> projects.<sup id="cite_ref-WPproj_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPproj-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thenextweb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenextweb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Wikimedia Foundation considered it the most challenging technical project to date, while <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i> has called it Wikipedia's "most significant change".<sup id="cite_ref-TheEconomist_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheEconomist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Dot" title="The Daily Dot">The Daily Dot</a></i>, the Wikimedia Foundation's pursuit of wider participation may risk alienating existing editors.<sup id="cite_ref-TheDailyDot_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheDailyDot-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2013, <a href="/wiki/English_Wikipedia" title="English Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a>'s VisualEditor was changed from opt-out to opt-in, following user complaints,<sup id="cite_ref-thereg_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thereg-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dd-kww_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dd-kww-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it was returned to being available by default (for new registered users only) in October 2015 after further development.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2015 study by the Wikimedia Foundation found that VisualEditor failed to provide the anticipated benefits for new editors.<sup id="cite_ref-May2015study_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May2015study-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>VisualEditor is bundled with every MediaWiki releases since version 1.35, released in September 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki#Editing_interface" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki § Editing interface</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/220px--Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="297" data-mwtitle="Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv/Editing_makes_me_feel_stupid.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>'Editing makes me feel stupid' - user tests commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation from 2009 which demonstrate the difficulty that ordinary users were having with editing MediaWiki code.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/200px--Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="200" height="113" data-durationhint="2505" data-mwtitle="Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm/Wikimania_2013_-_VisualEditor_-_The_present_and_future_of_editing_our_wikis.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>In a presentation from <a href="/wiki/Wikimania_2013" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimania 2013">Wikimania 2013</a>, the team developing the software presented it to attendees</figcaption></figure> <p>The original web-based Wikipedia editor provided by <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> is a plain browser-based <a href="/wiki/Text_editor" title="Text editor">text editor</a>, also called 'Source editor', where authors have to learn the <a href="/wiki/Wiki_markup" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki markup">wiki markup</a> language to edit.<sup id="cite_ref-ghacks_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghacks-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor for Wikipedia had been planned for years in order to remove the need to learn the wiki markup language. It was hoped this would reduce the technical hurdle for would-be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedian" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedian">Wikipedians</a>, enabling wider participation in editing, and was an attempt to reverse the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia#Decline_in_participation_since_2007" title="Wikipedia">decline in editor numbers</a> of 50,000 in 2006 to 35,000 in 2011, having peaked in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-TheEconomist_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheEconomist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheDailyDot_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheDailyDot-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was part of a $1m project aimed at developing new features and making improvements.<sup id="cite_ref-TheEconomist_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheEconomist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A goal of the project is to allow both the former wiki markup editing and editing with the WYSIWYG VisualEditor.<sup id="cite_ref-h-online2011_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h-online2011-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Wikimedia Foundation's Jay Walsh, the hope is to redress under-represented contributions from <a href="/wiki/Arabic_Wikipedia" title="Arabic Wikipedia">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Wikipedia" title="Portuguese Wikipedia">Portuguese</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages" title="Indo-Aryan languages">Indic-language</a> versions of the site.<sup id="cite_ref-TheDailyDot_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheDailyDot-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Wikimedia Foundation, "There are various reasons that lead existing and prospective contributors not to edit; among them, the complexity of wiki markup is a major issue. One of VisualEditor's goals is to empower knowledgeable and good-faith users to edit and become valuable members of the community, even if they're not wiki markup experts. We also hope that, with time, experienced editors will find VisualEditor useful for some of their editing tasks."<sup id="cite_ref-thenextweb_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenextweb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, <a href="/wiki/Sue_Gardner" title="Sue Gardner">Sue Gardner</a>, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said "we don't think that the visual editor, in and of itself, is going to solve the challenge",<sup id="cite_ref-theatlantic_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theatlantic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Wikipedia co-founder <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> remarked "This is epically important".<sup id="cite_ref-Ubergizmo_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ubergizmo-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rollout">Rollout</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rollout"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MediaWiki is used by numerous <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wikis</a>, with smaller sites originally conceived as being rolled out first.<sup id="cite_ref-theverge-previews_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theverge-previews-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VisualEditor was planned to be rolled out on the English-language Wikipedia for editors with registered accounts, and then for anonymous editors.<sup id="cite_ref-softpedia_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-softpedia-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Alpha_software" class="mw-redirect" title="Alpha software">alpha</a> version was made available to select users in December 2012, widened to all registered users in April.<sup id="cite_ref-TheRegister_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheRegister-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the default editor for users logged-into the English-language Wikipedia in July 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-thenextweb_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenextweb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheDailyDot_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheDailyDot-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was subsequently made opt-in on the English-language Wikipedia in September 2013 due to community complaints over its stability, and implementation was buggy and had limitations<sup id="cite_ref-thereg_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thereg-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dd-kww_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dd-kww-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (though it remained active for most non-English Wikipedias).<sup id="cite_ref-mediawiki-VisualEditor2_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mediawiki-VisualEditor2-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, it completed its beta development phase and was again made available on English Wikipedia.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technical">Technical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Technical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Wikimedia Foundation joined forces with Wikia to work on the project.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The implementation encountered challenges with the wiki markup language (the basis for Wikipedia articles), due to it being continuously extended over 12 years to include seldom-used rich and complex features making reproduction of the final article appearance dependent on many factors that were not easy to reproduce.<sup id="cite_ref-h-online_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h-online-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The technical implementation required improvements to MediaWiki in <a href="/wiki/Parsing" title="Parsing">parsing</a>, wiki markup language, the <a href="/wiki/Document_Object_Model" title="Document Object Model">DOM</a> and final <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> conversion.<sup id="cite_ref-aosabook_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aosabook-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A necessary component is a parser server called Parsoid<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was created to convert in both directions between wikitext and a format suitable for VisualEditor.<sup id="cite_ref-h-online_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h-online-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Wikimedia Foundation considered VisualEditor its most challenging technical project to date.<sup id="cite_ref-TheEconomist_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheEconomist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before 2024, supported <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a> included modern versions of <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Chrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Opera_(browser)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opera (browser)">Opera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Firefox" title="Firefox">Firefox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Safari_(browser)" class="mw-redirect" title="Safari (browser)">Safari</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Edge" title="Microsoft Edge">Edge</a>. In 2024, the code to check for a supported browser was removed.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The VisualEditor MediaWiki extension is available for download by server operators and typically requires the latest version of MediaWiki, it is bundled since MediaWiki 1.35.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Online_rich-text_editor">Online rich-text editor</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Online rich-text editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the VisualEditor team, the aim is "to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki",<sup id="cite_ref-mediawiki-VisualEditor2_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mediawiki-VisualEditor2-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a "visual editor" which is "WYSIWYG-like".<sup id="cite_ref-mediawiki-VisualEditorWelcome_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mediawiki-VisualEditorWelcome-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The implementation is split into a "core" <a href="/wiki/Online_rich-text_editor" title="Online rich-text editor">online rich-text editor</a> which can run independently of MediaWiki,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a MediaWiki extension.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Response">Response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Responses to the introduction of the VisualEditor have greatly varied, with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s L.M. calling it "the most significant change in Wikipedia's short history."<sup id="cite_ref-TheEconomist_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheEconomist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition">Opposition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Opposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some editors expressed concerns about the rollout and bugs, with the <a href="/wiki/German_Wikipedia" title="German Wikipedia">German Wikipedia</a> community deciding to use an opt-in model instead of an opt-out one.<sup id="cite_ref-TheDailyDot_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheDailyDot-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-theregister-buggy_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theregister-buggy-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Irish_Wikipedia" title="Irish Wikipedia">Irish Wikipedia</a> administrator Oliver Moran, echoing concerns of other editors, said that users may feel belittled by the implication that "certain people" are confused by wiki markup and therefore need the VisualEditor, comparing the learning of wikitext favorably to <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Hashtag" title="Hashtag">hashtag</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mention_(blogging)" title="Mention (blogging)">@ (at sign) mention</a> syntax.<sup id="cite_ref-Simonite_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simonite-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three months after the rollout of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, <i>The Daily Dot</i> reported that the Wikimedia Foundation had experienced backlash from long-time editors who deemed the editor "buggy and untested". Following discourse between the community and the foundation, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_administrators" title="Wikipedia administrators">Wikipedia administrator</a> Kww overrode the foundation's rollout, making it opt-in, instead of opt-out. The Foundation did not revert the change, instead committing to further improving VisualEditor.<sup id="cite_ref-thereg_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thereg-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dd-kww_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dd-kww-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support">Support</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Support"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Softpedia" title="Softpedia">Softpedia</a></i> ran an article titled "Wikipedia's New VisualEditor Is the Best Update in Years and You Can Make It Better".<sup id="cite_ref-softpedia-best_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-softpedia-best-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a></i> said that the update brings the foundation "a little closer to its goal of making it easier for anyone to create and edit Wikipedia articles."<sup id="cite_ref-TheRegister_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheRegister-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Research_results">Research results</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Research results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Primary_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Primary_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies excessively on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">references</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please improve this section by adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary or tertiary sources</a>. <br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22VisualEditor%22">"VisualEditor"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22VisualEditor%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22VisualEditor%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22VisualEditor%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22VisualEditor%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22VisualEditor%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Halfaker" title="Aaron Halfaker">Aaron Halfaker</a>, a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, ran a <a href="/wiki/Controlled_study" class="mw-redirect" title="Controlled study">controlled study</a> on the effects of VisualEditor in May 2015. The study found that VisualEditor did not increase editor productivity, however reducing the burden upon existing editors. Editing took 18 seconds longer with VisualEditor before hitting save, and new editors were less likely to save their work. Halfaker however did ascribe these negative results as from editors testing the new system, not any real struggle.<sup id="cite_ref-May2015study_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May2015study-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A previous June 2013 controlled test — when VisualEditor was less mature — showed similar neutral and negative results.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors#WYSIWYG_editors" title="List of HTML editors">List of HTML editors § WYSIWYG editors</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid">"Parsoid"</a>. <i>MediaWiki</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141125005900/https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid">Archived</a> from the original on 2014-11-25.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=MediaWiki&rft.atitle=Parsoid&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FParsoid&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVisualEditor" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EVED/browse/master/LICENSE.txt;9740d1683e9f2d66e81d8c54466b89b7ca2a0292">LICENSE.txt</a>, VisualEditor source code repository</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TheVerge-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-TheVerge_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Qjcs0FE0op4C">Erfolgsfaktoren von Social Media: Wie "funktionieren" Wikis?: Eine vergleichende Analyse kollaborativer Kommunikationssysteme im Internet, in Organisationen und in Gruppen</a>" (2013) Lit Verlag, pp. 30–32. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3643122100" title="Special:BookSources/978-3643122100">978-3643122100</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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