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== Why us? == | == Why us? == | ||
Well, we're doing it because our community is large enough for a meaningful test and because we've always dealt comparatively well with change. Most of the Tardis team | Well, we're doing it because our community is large enough for a meaningful test and because we've always dealt comparatively well with change. Most of the Tardis team understand — perhaps because of the shifting nature of ''Doctor Who'' itself — that change is inevitable. So we're likely to be a reasonable bunch of people to test it on. | ||
We're also adopting it because [[user:CzechOut|our tech admin]] has had a face-to-face meeting with the VE team and believes that the underlying fundamentals are rock solid. This isn't anything ''remotely'' like the Visual Editor that this wiki voted outta here some time ago. This is something that really will — once its bugs are ironed out — help attract new editors. It offers the genuine promise of ''mostly'' WYSIWIG editing. If a person only wants to add a sentence or fix spelling — which studies show is all ''most'' editors actually want to do — this new editor make that ''massively'' easier. | We're also adopting it because [[user:CzechOut|our tech admin]] has had a face-to-face meeting with the VE team and believes that the underlying fundamentals are rock solid. This isn't anything ''remotely'' like the Visual Editor that this wiki voted outta here some time ago. This is something that really will — once its bugs are ironed out — help attract new editors. It offers the genuine promise of ''mostly'' WYSIWIG editing. If a person only wants to add a sentence or fix spelling — which studies show is all ''most'' editors actually want to do — this new editor make that ''massively'' easier. | ||
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Those of us who have been here for a while may have forgotten just how incredibly arcane the normal — or what Wikia calls "source mode" — editing is. But to the person used to editing on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest, [[T:MARK|wiki markup]] is initially ... arcane. | Those of us who have been here for a while may have forgotten just how incredibly arcane the normal — or what Wikia calls "source mode" — editing is. But to the person used to editing on Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest, [[T:MARK|wiki markup]] is initially ... arcane. | ||
The hope of the VE is that it will allow people to make a lot more quick-fire edits — while still allowing the more experienced editor access to all the complexity of the wikitext "language". | The hope of the VE is that it will allow people to make a lot more quick-fire edits — while still allowing the more experienced editor access to all the complexity of the wikitext "language". | ||
== Why now? == | == Why now? == | ||
Some might say that it was insane to enable such a massive change to editing on the eve of the Doctor's 50th anniversary and, indeed, the impending change of Doctors. But it's precisely ''because'' we're expecting such an in-rush of editors — indeed, it's already noticeably started — that we wanted to enable it right now. | Some might say that it was insane to enable such a massive change to editing on the eve of the Doctor's 50th anniversary and, indeed, the impending change of Doctors. But it's precisely ''because'' we're expecting such an in-rush of editors — indeed, it's already noticeably started — that we wanted to enable it right now. | ||
