{{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 Wikimarkup. 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.
