On 23 December 2010 02:37, Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have to disagree strongly with the calls for WYSIWYG editing, not > that it's likely to materialize anytime soon. Wikipedia needs to > encourage people to concentrate on meaningful content, not dick around > with cosmetic matters. I think our current markup is one of our biggest barriers to participation. I don't have WMF numbers, but one contributor on mediawiki-l, who runs an intranet covering a large public service organisation in the US, reported a remarkable uptake in wiki participation just by going to FCKeditor. The users are smart, capable and competent people in their fields, but were seriously put off by wikitext. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
