User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-93604-20110623234948/@comment-3388044-20110624111238

That's correct. If RTE is disabled in your Preferences, you do not see a Visual mode tab. Source mode is all you get. (Although I really like this editor’s source mode!) — Spike  Toronto  11:12, June 24, 2011 (UTC)