Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol/Archives/2015/June

VisualEditor test
Hi everyone,

User:EpochFail's planning an A/B test for newly registered users. I know that it's been posted elsewhere, but I wanted to make sure that you all in particular were aware of it. The idea is to see whether offering it to them changes their chance of turning into productive editors (more on the project page at Meta). I'm sure that most of you know that they run this sort of experiment fairly often, but they had some problems with the testing software a little while ago. So this test is actually going to start with a pre-test on 21 May 2015. Assuming that everything's working, they'll do the proper one-week study later.

What I want to say is this: If you see problems, please let me know! Ping me, leave a note on my talk page, post bugs at WP:VEF. Nominally, my role in this test is to find new problems in VisualEditor, but I want to know about any kind of problem at all, and I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Quick update: The results from this test have been posted at m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study.  To put it in a nutshell, the group that had access to VisualEditor was slightly less likely to be reverted than the ones without, and everything else was the same.
 * There's also a related proposal at the Village Pump to give new users exactly what you get if you opt in to VisualEditor via Special:Preferences. Then they can choose which one they want to use for each edit.
 * Finally, if you haven't looked at VisualEditor for a few months, then you can have a quick look on a random article (requires Javascript/doesn't change your account settings). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)