User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: March 13, 2012/@comment-4578246-20120313184525/@comment-1656630-20120313195759

Hi! The new mini editor will *definitely* not make Message Wall mandatory -- it's just a new feature in response to many people asking for formatting assistance in that product.

If you don't like the lightweight editor on Community Test, we'd love to know specifics about why. The current plan is to release it sitewide for all Wall-using wikis (keeping in mind that anyone who has visual editing disabled in their editor will still only see wikitext when creating a wall message). Everything is a work in progress at Wikia, though, so we love to hear your perspectives based on experience.