Well spoken.
The issue of complexity of editing is my top complaint on the Marvel
Database, currently.
We should all strive to achieve a balance of automation, presentation and
simplicity for the best end results.

Not always easy...


Cheers,



-- 
Jamie Hari
Editor-in-Chief
Marvel & DC Database Projects


On 1/10/08, sannse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Another issue I think is important, is ease of reading in the edit
> view.  This has got more and more complicated over the years, making
> it harder and harder for newbies to simply click the edit tab, read,
> and type.  The more special code you put in view, the more users who
> won't edit for fear of braking something on an incomprehensible page.
>
> -- sannse
>
> Lisa "sannse" Carter
> Wikia Community and Technical Team
> http://www.wikia.com
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 6:59 PM, Jesús Martínez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > MediaWiki now does something like that for punctuation.
> >
> > See <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Weird_spaces_before_question_marks>
> >
> > It automatically converts a space before a punctuation to a &nbsp; so
> > it must be trivial to add more rules to that.
> >
> > But something I don't like is that it's not done taking in mind
> > internationalization. For example, the spaces before punctuation seems
> > to be a rule only for french grammar, but it's applied to all
> > languages. The same would happen with those new rules? It would
> > contain rules from other languages apart from english and french?
> >
> > 2008/1/10, Chris Stafford wrote:
> > > i dont know about an automatic thing, but i could see uses for
> <nowrap>
> > >
> > > -ubrfzy
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