Being a Signpost editor I should probably shut up. However, as someone who has occasionally been very critical of WMF engineering and product development, this time I want to congratulate the personnel who have worked hard to develop this major improvement. Already I'm hearing anecdotal evidence that editor-training sessions have been able to engage new editors and make bigger strides with them because the complexities of wikisyntax are no longer getting in the way at the initial stage.The storm of negativity from established editors is hard to believe, and makes me suspect that there's an attitude abroad that "if I had to do it the hard way, so should you". Established editors have two buttons to push: one for the status quo edit-box, and one for VE. Apparently this is disorienting and offensive, so it's simple ... please just don't push the VE button by mistake. And while you're at it, your continued helpful feedback to the engineers would be appreciated.
A big thank-you to WMF engineers and any supporting volunteers; please keep up your very good work on this critical project. Tony (talk) 07:57, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- To be fair, it was really easy to hit the wrong button by mistake, so long as it appeared in the same relative location as the Edit button on talk pages &c. Powers T 19:08, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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