You seem to be missing my point - that the WL tool serves an ulterior function of allowing users who do not understand markup to communicate and request help in a way they can understand. I *am* saying that most of those with few or no edits will have problems understanding markup, which is why it's important, even without WL's core purpose, that the tool remain available to new editors.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Fae <f...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > On 30 October 2011 08:06, Oliver Keyes <scire.fac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surely making it only available to those users who understand markup > > completely undermines one of the great unintended consequences - that > it's > > really useful for posting talkpage messages? > > I did not equate "users with 10 edits" with those that understand > markup, these are different things. My use of the word "template" is > generic, in that Wikilove provides standard templates for user talk > pages, this does not imply anything about the ability of users to > understand wiki markup or html. > > Apologies if my language was not plain enough to avoid > misinterpretation in unexpected ways. > > Cheers, > Fae > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
