On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quality like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One thing that I learned > today is that the Visual Editor will have functionality that only the more > accomplished editors will enter directly or they will use templates. With > VE these templates are redundant.
Some, perhaps. But would you rather use a template or remember the multiple buttons in VE and the right CSS style/class string (if that's even possible in VE?) to do the same thing manually? > From my perspective, the future will be with the VE and not with the > horrible tortuous templates that require study to use. One of the reasons > why I prefer Wikidata over Wikipedia is that Wikidata does not have > templates and is certainly as relevant. When I notice the improvements in > the Wikidata experience, I can only applaud the improvements made. Wikidata also deals with discrete bits of usually-unformatted data, rather than heavily-formatted encyclopedia articles. I'm not sure you're comparing apples to apples there. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
