* Steve Bennett <[email protected]> [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:18:17 +1000]: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wikis are supposed to be easy to edit. Maybe I am misunderstanding > > your intent, but XML-ize everything sounds like an approach that would > > make it much harder for novice editors to figure out what they are > > doing. XML tends to be verbose and complicated when edited by hand, > > and rather opaque for people who have no experience with it. > > I think the intention is that newbies will never even see the XML, let > alone be expected to edit it. The XML defines the template, and tells > MediaWiki how to construct the form that the user edits with. You > would only need to edit the XML if you were modifying the template > itself - hardly likely for a newbie. > What if I need to add a simple table to the page? With wikitext that would take much less of keys to press than using html or xml. Even simple things, like headers, bolds, italics and images are shorter to define in wikitext. Dmitriy
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