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Line 1: ~~{{VisualEditor navbox}}~~ ~~{{For\|more recent research\|m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study}}~~ As part of our preparations for the 2013 launch we ran a group of users from [https://www.usertesting.com/ UserTesting .com] through a set of tasks, first using the VisualEditor and then using wiki markup. Some of them had tried to edit in the past; many were total newcomers. The script for the tests can be [[#Script\|seen below]]. This is not the only data we are relying on; we are also (and more usefully) [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Why/Quantitative data\|gathering quantitative data]] from a test on the English-language Wikipedia, in which 50 percent of new users were given the VisualEditor by default. ==Using the source editor== <div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom:5px; line-height:120%" align="center">''"This automatically looks confusing and overwhelming."<br> "There was tons of foreign jargon amidst the content and it looked nothing like how the real page looked." <br>"I don't want to have to learn a new language just to edit Wikipedia."''</div>

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