VisualEditor/Survey 2015/en



The Editing team is asking for your help in improving VisualEditor. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. Small problems might not seem important enough to file a bug about, but the Editing team wants to hear about and fix these things, too.

They are contacting several different types of users and asking you to share your thoughts [//example.com by clicking this link].

The quick, simple, anonymous survey is being conducted via Qualtrics. You may respond in your own language. If you take the survey, then you agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. If you have questions, or prefer to respond on-wiki, then please leave a message on the talk page. The entire survey is posted below.

The information you share will be used to improve VisualEditor's function and design. A link to the final results will be posted on this page.

Introduction
This survey is being conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation to learn more about community members' experience with VisualEditor on Wikipedia and related projects. VisualEditor is a rich-text editor that makes it possible to edit Wikipedia and other projects without first learning wikitext markup. These screenshots were taken from the English Wikipedia article, "Galaxy". The first screenshot (on the left) shows the article open for editing in VisualEditor. The second screenshot (on the right) shows the same article open for editing in the wikitext editor.

''You agree your responses may be used in accordance with these terms. This survey is powered by Qualtrics and their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. For licensing and attribution of the screenshots, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy.''

Questions

 * 1) First, to which project do you contribute most often?
 * 2) How frequently do you use VisualEditor when you are editing articles?
 * 3) How likely are you to recommend VisualEditor to a new editor?
 * 4) Choose all that apply:
 * 5) * In the past, I used VisualEditor regularly, but now I mostly use the wikitext editor.
 * 6) * I have tried to use VisualEditor, but I often left the page without trying to save my changes.
 * 7) * I sometimes start editing in VisualEditor, but then switch to the wikitext editor.
 * 8) * I have provided feedback about VisualEditor on wiki at pages like VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * 9) * I have reported bugs or subscribed to bugs in Bugzilla or Phabricator.
 * 10) * None of the above
 * 11) In VisualEditor, the area that needs the most improvement is...
 * 12) * Adding or editing citations
 * 13) * Images and other media
 * 14) * General editing
 * 15) * Support for languages other than English
 * 16) * Adding or editing templates
 * 17) * Performance and speed
 * 18) * Making or editing links to other pages and other websites
 * 19) * Copying and pasting
 * 20) * Having discussions with other editors
 * 21) * Switching back and forth between VisualEditor and wikitext editor
 * 22) * Setting and changing categories
 * 23) * Having two edit buttons rather than the software remembering which I like to use
 * 24) * Handling edit conflicts without showing me wikitext
 * 25) * Showing me diffs and the history of articles visually
 * 26) * Formulæ, imagemaps, timelines or other special content types
 * 27) * Stability and reliability
 * 28) * Other
 * 29) I would like to see improvements to this area (the one selected in the previous question).  If I could make one change to this area, I would change...
 * 30) How did you hear about this survey?
 * 31) * A message on my user talk page
 * 32) * A message on someone else's talk page
 * 33) * From another page on wiki
 * 34) * E-mail
 * 35) * Other
 * 36) Optional:  In case we have questions about your comments or suggestions, you may type your username here.  If you want, you may add the best wiki to reach you.  (Example:  User:WhatamIdoing at en.wikipedia.org)