How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors?

First time accepted submitter azadnama writes "Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is aware of the fact the MediaWiki formatting syntax is a major obstacle for people's participation in writing on the site. To address this problem, the Foundation is developing VisualEditor—a web-based WYSIWYG interface for editing articles. It's supposed to be similar to a word processor, like LibreOffice, Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, and others. And this is the time to ask: What did your word processor get wrong and how can Wikipedia's VisualEditor get it right?"

VisualEditor?

[Culture20]

That's the long name for vi. Why don't they consider emacs?

For wikipedia

[Anonymous Coward]

It should have built in warnings so you know not to waste time on an article that belongs to one of the regulars. It might be possible to calculate this on the fly for each article by seeing how long an average edit lasts before being reverted by one of a small number of players.