2009/3/31  <wjhon...@aol.com>:
> <<In a message dated 3/31/2009 10:58:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> dger...@gmail.com writes:

>> The  plumbing of templates is horrible, but the actual template
>> interface is  simple. Presumably WYSIWYG editing tools can be tweaked
>> to make it a  fill-in form more accessibly.>>

> This would be the BOMB, the absolute frickin ultimate BOMB.
> (That means a good thing.)
> I hate long templates esp. because I can never remember the component  names.
>  So I tend to just stick to my old way of doing things and let  others fancy
> it up later.  Some templates (to my mind) are just utterly  stupid.  But if
> they came up as a form, that would certainly simplify  everything.


Yeah. Current WYSIWYG editors either (a) sorta do a subset of actual
wiki markup or (b) just fill the page with raw HTML. But I understand
they're advancing. There's enough demand for them on corporate
intranets and suchlike that you can be sure any WYSIWYG editor will be
thoroughly debugged before it hits Wikimedia sites.


- d.

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