On 04/11/2010 Florian Effenberger wrote: > believe me - we *NEED* a WYSIWYG editor, if we want large contributions > to the wiki (which we do). ;)
Large in what sense? A large number of contributors or a few contributors making a large amount of work each? I would say that in the first case the many contributors can live with the standard editor (after all, paragraphs and basic lists are trivial, and for a small contribution you probably won't need more), and in the second one the contributors will be motivated enough to learn some syntax and only "power users" facing problems like the one Christoph mentioned (adding a column to a table) will have to endure some annoyances. In general I'm against WYSIWYG editors in MediaWiki also because they often mangle code enough to make the "diff" function useless. But if you know for sure that there are people who won't live without a WYSIWYG editor, then I can't oppose it too much. I would, however, make it disabled by default but then (since only knowledgeable people will know where to find the option otherwise!) add a prominent "To enable easy[/rich?] editing capabilities, click here" notice just above the editing textarea. Regards, Andrea. -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
