Updated 21 May, 2013, 8:08 pm IST Wikipedia is working on a new,
simpler text editor | by Padmini Harchandrai | Quite contrary to
common belief, the number of people writing and editing
information to go up on Wikipedia's online encyclopedia is
actually very small. According to Business Insider, the bulk of
Wikipedia's text is contributed by outsiders, tens of thousands
of them. But each outsider only contributes to one or very few
pages. The bulk of the editing, tweaking and fixing is done by a
mere 1400 individuals. These, of course, are statistics from
three years ago, but Wikipedia still feels that its contributor
base is small because their text editor is too complicated.
Therefore, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked on a new
prototype 'visual editor' for the site. A post on the
Foundation's blog says, "The visual editor is a new editing
environment that won’t require everyone to learn our special
markup language in order to contribute to our projects."
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