Board Thread:New Features/@comment-4079189-20150829183613/@comment-24473195-20150903205107

SpikeToronto wrote: @Dessamator: So, you’re a proponent of the VisualEditor being our only editor?! No. It is simply impossible unless wikia disables lua/scribunto permanently or creates some hack to get it to work using the Visual editor.

I'm a proponent of VisualEditor being our only WYSIWYG-like editor. The rich-text editor while a great editor in its time, simply has to go. Keeping both of those is one hell of a complicated mess, it is like keeping permanent training wheels. I know there are problems with VisualEditor, but none that can't be overcome.

Both Wikia and the contributors are using it as a crutch. Parallel implementations like this aren't meant to be long term solutions, and wikia knows it only too well.

@Kirkburn: I don't think the source editor should ever truly be retired, because of lua and such things. But if you evaluate good software nobody looks for the source of Ms-Word or LibreOffice or Notepad documents to fix underlying interface problems/bugs.

The only reason to keep it for article editing is because wikitext is a badly defined markup abused through feature creep. Even its Wikimedia maintainers and designers have openly stated this.