Personally I'm not a huge fan of the visual editor -- but during the
presentation it was sort of awesome how quickly the notes shifted into Wiki
Markup....

Anything that onboards folks into using more Wiki Markup, I'm a fan of that.

But good to know this for going forward.

- Erika


*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>
Secretary, Wikimedia NYC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC>

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Brill Lyle <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad
> which
> > resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It
> > allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal.
> >
>
> For those who aren't aware, it's now possible to bring etherpad native
> formatting (e.g. bold, bullet lists) into a wiki page. You just have to use
> etherpad's "Export to HTML" feature, and then paste that result into Visual
> Editor.
>
> If the formatting is heavy on headings, wiki format is probably better.
> Otherwise, native formatting tends to be easier to deal with during the
> meeting itself (e.g. indenting nested bullet lists, WYSIWYG bold, etc.).
>
> It's great that we now have both options. Thanks VE team!
>
> Kevin
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