Talk:VisualEditor/Portal/New users

This page looks orphaned now. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:30, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

IRC
The IRC channel is extremely difficult to find. Why isn't it mentioned anywhere? Woudloper (talk) 14:04, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, I added it here. This page instead is not about VE strictly speaking. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:38, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Help
The Help/New users page was as close as I could get to "help," but it does not appear to be about help (for me) at all. I think it’s about me helping others. I can’t help others because the VE installation looks very technical. What I’m trying to find is help (for me), because I don’t understand how to install it on my wiki. I think I have to get it installed before I can try to use it. I think I saw something about installing Parsinoid (or something like that), and that Parsinoid was "particularly complicated to install on a Windows platform". Since I use Windows 7, that means too complicated for me. Stephen G. Brown (talk) 05:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Stephen G. Brown! Do you need to install VE for a wiki site you own, or are you interested in enabling it for use at WMF sites like the English Wikipedia? --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 07:50, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It’s a WMF site, nv:Íiyisíí Naaltsoos. We’ve just received a notice about the Visual Editor, but it seems that some sort of installation is required. Stephen G. Brown (talk) 11:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer, Stephen G. Brown. No installation is required. Part of that message says:


 * 1) Opt-in to VisualEditor by going to Special:Preferences and choosing "".  Save your preferences.
 * 2) Edit any article or your user page in VisualEditor by clicking on the new "" tab at the top of the page. See the mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide for information on how to use VisualEditor.
 * Can you tell me if you see something unclear there? The first point tells you how to activate VisualEditor. The second one includes a direct link to the user guide, which contains further help. Thank you. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 12:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)