Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-126761-20170914141236

A big question we want to answer as part of this is: can we create an editor where wikitext / HTML knowledge is not needed? While I am sure many are comfortable editing source code, many others may not be - and that does not imply they are 'lazy', just not interesting in learning a coding language. A core tenet of FANDOM is that we want wikis to be open to editing by everyone with appropriate knowledge - not just the more technically-inclined. (Consider how complex wikitext can become inside some templates.)

The basic design of the experimental editor should make it much faster to load than the VisualEditor (or classic rich-text editor) - speed is a very important consideration for the experiment.