On 31 May 2010 23:31, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wiki syntax is too complicated for this to be feasible. It also > doesn't have a one-to-one mapping to HTML. It's been tried before, > but what you end up with is that it doesn't round-trip: if you open in > the WYSIWYG editor and save with no changes, it saves totally > different wikicode, confusing anyone who's using actual wikitext. The > only feasible solutions are to either drastically simplify wikitext, > or switch to WYSIWYG only, and those would both be very disruptive. ... and the problem with the wikitext being mangled is that diffs show a 100% text change for any alteration whatsoever and become useless. Even if the content isn't semantically mangled. FCK+MW is so *almost* there it's frustrating how close it seems. But then, this is a problem where the last 5% of the list is the last 95% of the work. (Will *this* be what tempts me to take up coding? Be afraid ... I have the algorithmic insight of a sysadmin and only know about force and brute force ...) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
