VisualEditor  Extending and improving the editing tools used at Wikimedia
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VisualEditor is a reliable rich-texteditor for HTML documents. It was created by theEditing team forMediaWiki's HTML+RDFa document format (generated byParsoid) and is available as aMediaWiki extension. VisualEditor'score implementation is a standalone JavaScript library and can run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, or Node.js.
As of 2020, VisualEditor is enabled by default here on mediawiki.org and on most Wikipedia and Wikivoyage language editions. It is available as an opt-inBeta Feature to logged-in users on other Wikimedia projects. VisualEditor is generally not enabled for pages outside the contentnamespaces, such as discussion pages or template code.
More information about VisualEditor can be found on themulti-lingualVisualEditor Portal, onWikimedia's blog, andthe FAQ. Information about VisualEditor's wikitext mode is at2017 wikitext editor.
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The decline in new contributor growth was viewed as the single most serious challenge facing the Wikimedia movement. VisualEditor was built with the goal of removing avoidable technical impediments associated with Wikimedia's editing interface, as a necessary pre-condition for increasing the number of Wikimedia contributors. Subsequent research foundno measurable gains over wikitext for new contributors.
SeeVisualEditor/Data for an overview of the what we know about how people use and experience the visual editor (mobile and desktop).
Enabling VisualEditor by default for all users or for all logged-in users can be requested by contacting the Editing team's product manager.
VisualEditor is a standalone program that can be run without MediaWiki, Parsoid, orNode.js that provides a visual editor for editing HTML5 pages. It is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser.
Here are some helpful links:
You can speak with us in our chat channel,#mediawiki-visualeditorconnect.
For more information on VisualEditor and its design process, see these directory pages:
