According to the VisualEditor team, the aim is "to create a reliable rich-text editor for MediaWiki",[23] a "visual editor" which is "WYSIWYG-like".[24] The implementation is split into a "core" online rich-text editor which can run independently of MediaWiki,[25] and a MediaWiki extension.[26] The MediaWiki extension is in the category "WYSIWYG extensions".