User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-13918697-20141028074944/@comment-126761-20141029004311

Virago, you just need to change your editing preference to "Wikia's classic rich-text editor". This will give you the 'classic' editor experience with the visual and source mode tabs: Help:Classic editor.

There's more detail on the preference options here: Help:Editing.

The new VisualEditor does have a source mode, mind you - there's more info on that here: Help:VisualEditor.