Wikipedia is working on a new, simpler text editor

Quite contrary to common belief, the number of people writing and editing information to go up on Wikipedia's online encyclopedia is actually very small. According to Business Insider, the bulk of Wikipedia's text is contributed by outsiders, tens of thousands of them. But each outsider only contributes to one or very few pages. The bulk of the editing, tweaking and fixing is done by a mere 1400 individuals. These, of course, are statistics from three years ago, but Wikipedia still feels that its contributor base is small because their text editor is too complicated. Therefore, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked on a new prototype 'visual editor' for the site. A post on the Foundation's Click here for full story