> I have thought about WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia and found it > technically impossible. The main and key problem of WYSIWIG are > templates. You have to understand that templates are not single > element of Wikipedia syntax, they are integral part of page markup. > You do not insert "infobox template", you insert infobox *itself*, and > from what I heard the templates were the main concern of many editors > who were scared of wikitext. > > Now think of how many templates are there in Wikipedia, how frequently > they are changed and how much time it would take to implement their > editing. > > --vvv
Exactly, that's why someone should start over and create a fork which is a wiki, quick and easy editing. I've, involuntarily, learned a lot about coding though fooling with templates, but that is not what I came for. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
