VisualEditor/Portal

Welcome to the portal for the VisualEditor - a new way of editing Wikipedia being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Editing Wikipedia at the moment requires people to learn wikimarkup, a fairly complex markup language, even to make tiny corrections to an article. In 2001, this was acceptable - in 2013, it's driving contributors away. The VisualEditor allows people to edit without having to learn wikimarkup, and will, we hope, help encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia.

The full timetable for the VisualEditor launch can be found below - but by the end of July 2013, we expect this to be the default editor for users on almost all Wikipedia projects.

About the VisualEditor
The VisualEditor is a new, "Visual" way of editing Wikipedia, which will let people contribute without having to learn wikimarkup.