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;Why is this change being made?
:The complex wiki markup syntax used by the old editing window is the [[strategy:Former Contributors Survey Results#Key findings|biggest barrier]] to making the first edit, and therefore the biggest barrier to beginning the path that could lead to someone's becoming a productive, experienced member of the editing community. To increase the number of successful first attempts at editing, we need a better editing system. Please read our [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal/Why|longer explanation]] for more details.▼
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▲:The complex wiki markup syntax used by the old editing window is the [[strategy:Former Contributors Survey Results#Key findings|biggest barrier]] to making the first edit, and therefore the biggest barrier to beginning the path that could lead to someone's becoming a productive, experienced member of the editing community
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">To increase the number of successful first attempts at editing, we need a better editing system.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Please read our [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal/Why|longer explanation]] for more details.</span>
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; A feature is missing in VisualEditor. How do I ask you to add it?
: Some features are currently being developed or planned. The [[mw:VisualEditor/Roadmap|Roadmap]], the [[mw:Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Goals|Wikimedia Engineering goals pages]] for 2015–2016 and the [[phab:tag/visualeditor/|Phabricator workboard]] provide some additional information as well. If you can't find any reference to the new feature you'd like to suggest, please submit it using the same process used to report an issue.▼
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: Some features are currently being developed or planned.
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: Building a modern editing interface for Wikipedia and its sister wiki is a technical challenge, but it's possible using modern web technologies and standards.
</div> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Unfortunately, some browsers don't support many of the features we need for VisualEditor.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">We're doing our best to support the most common browsers: VisualEditor works well with recent versions of the most popular web browsers: Firefox 15 and up; Iceweasel 10 and up; Safari 7 and up; Chrome 19 and up; Opera 15 and up; Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and up; Edge 12 and up.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">In some browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9, a warning message will still show up, but users shouldn't experience any major problems editing.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Trying to work around the limitations of older browsers would divert resources from improvements that would benefit the majority of users.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">We encourage you to upgrade to a supported browser and, if you can't, to continue to edit using the source wikitext editor.</span> <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">(See [[VisualEditor/Target browser matrix|target browser matrix]] for specific details.)</span> <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">
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