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VisualEditor (VE) is an online rich-text editor for MediaWiki that provides a "visual" or WYSIWYG-like way to edit pages.
This MediaWiki extension was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation in partnership with Wikia. In July 2013, it was enabled by default on several of the largest Wikipedia projects.The Wikimedia Foundation considered it the most challenging technical project to date, while The Economist has called it Wikipedia's most significant change. According to The Daily Dot, Wikimedia Foundation's pursuit of wider participation may risk alienating existing editors. In September 2013, English Wikipedia's VisualEditor was changed from opt-out to opt-in, following user complaints, but it was returned to being available by default in October 2015 after further development. A 2015 study by the Wikimedia Foundation found that VisualEditor failed to provide the anticipated benefits for new editors.

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