Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3153244-20130525142642/@comment-4795804-20130528133423

Just to remind:

We don't plan to remove the Visual Mode. If we set the Source mode as default, people would be still able to switch to the Visual Mode.

The main advantage of the Source mode as the default option is that people, who are new to the Wikia editing system and who can't correctly use either the Source mode or the Visual Mode, will do less accidental harm to the pages in the Source mode than in the Visual Mode.