This was discussed at the weekly triage meeting on 2015-06-09. We decided that this was too large in scope to be added to this current quarter, but components of it would be good candidates, and that overall it should be nominated for next quarter.

@Quiddity, I removed T101211 as a blocker because I intended this task to be about education features in the software itself, not broader advertising efforts. Pushback welcome.

Note that VE training video, mostly aimed at new editors, is in development.

Here's the interaction prototype

Mockups for the popovers for links and citations

In T101481#1423164, @Pine wrote:

Note that VE training video, mostly aimed at new editors, is in development.

Anything you could share with us already (ie., the script)? Thanks.

Nothing yet. I'm in discussions with Victor Grigas. I'm juggling a lot of balls, not sure when I will have more to share about the VE-specific script. In the longer term, I am drafting an IEG proposal here for a more comprehensive video, and would welcome comments and suggestions on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia

As part of my work with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), I've drawn up some leaflets that take a different approach to training Wikipedia editors. This is because I found the current materials focus heavily on wikitext markup, whereas I would like to get beyond that and have people focus on meaningful content contributions that are facilitated by VisualEditor. The flyers are available below for all to use:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Help_Sheet_-_Turn_on_VisualEditor.pdf
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Help_Sheet_-_Editing_Wikipedia_with_VisualEditor.pdf
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Help_Sheet_-_Guidelines.pdf

I wrote this in response to an email asking what I meant by closing this; posting just in case someone else is curious:

I'm just closing the tracking task because it doesn't really have a purpose; there's no clear milestone or accomplishment that would allow us to close it. It doesn't represent any work other than the sum of the blocking tasks, whose implementation isn't connected. For all these reasons, we've moved away from tracking tasks in general; it was a bad idea to open this one in the first place (my bad idea :)

"Improving and streamlining education" is still very much a goal, and all the blocking tasks are still open; this is just housekeeping. That said, if you feel strongly that it should stay open, you're welcome to reopen it!

It wouldn't make sense to reopen something which was supposed to be a tracking task, and now doesn't have blocking tasks anymore. However, if "we've moved away from tracking tasks in general", it should be, from what I can tell, because we're now grouping things differently. For example, if I'm interested in VE bugs about links, I head to Visualeditor-mediawiki-links and can find all of them on that board. Now the only thing that keeps all these tasks together instead is having them listed above as removed tasks, which is suboptimal when you want to show a volunteer "here are all the things we've been working on when it comes to VE education".

@Elitre, the general trend now is to use Phabricator projects instead of tracking tasks. If it would help you a lot to be able to find user guidance-related tasks, you should propose a project for it! Instructions are here; in this case I would suggest something like user-guidance; you could then find VE user guidance tasks by searching for the intersection of the two projects.