It wouldn't be all that hard. Elements are either inline or block
elements. Inline elements insert into the text flow, while text flows around
block elements. If we make the distinction as simple as that, and disallow
all methods of positioning other than that which is natively available in
wiki
Ryan Lomonaco wrote:
I think this has been brought up before, but a thought I've had: Apart from
the fact that it will require a ton of work in coding, what would keep us
from separating templates (and, for that matter, images) from the article
text? Article text would exist by itself, and
Really good points. I still advocate moving the possibility for these
ugly constructs to templates, so that we keep all the magic tricks
we have now, but lose the ability to make an article that is write
only by littering it with code that only the wikigods and the parser
itself could decypher.
I think this has been brought up before, but a thought I've had: Apart from
the fact that it will require a ton of work in coding, what would keep us
from separating templates (and, for that matter, images) from the article
text? Article text would exist by itself, and categories, templates,
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Let me riff on what you're saying here (partly just to confirm that I
understand fully what you're saying). It'd be very cool to have the
ability to declare a single article, or probably more helpfully, a
single
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
e.g. Wikia has WYSIWYG editing and templates. They have a sort of
solution to template editing in WYSIWYG. It's not great, but people
sort of cope. How did they get there? What can be done to make it
better,
How about attacking the problem by using something that already exists...
- The Wikimedia Foundation gets a lot of support from Google,
financially. How about we ask for some technology support as well? Google
has a completely plugin-independant JS-based editor in Google Docs, as well
Hi Brion,
Thanks for laying out the problem so clearly! I agree wholeheartedly
that we need to avoid thinking about this problem too narrowly as a
user interface issue on top of existing markup+templates. More
inline:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
This
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Let me riff on what you're saying here (partly just to confirm that I
understand fully what you're saying). It'd be very cool to have the
ability to declare a single article, or probably more helpfully, a
single
