> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mathias Schindler" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:34:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWTF working demo
>> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Magnus Manske
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > What I would like is some discussion about
>> > * if this approach (working pseudo-WYSIWYG instead of unattainable
>> > perfect WYSIWYG) is the way to go
>> > * if the code I wrote would be a suitable basis for a system we can
>> > throw at the general public
>> > * if anyone is willing to help me with that
>>
>> I love it and for the sake of demonstration the deep impact of the
>> approach, I recommend one minor change:
>>
>> * deactivate or hide or shrink the "read" and "edit" tab as they are
>> now obsolete or make the WYSIWTF tab the default display.
>
> Are like hell.
>
> Some people -- you can include me in this -- *actively* hate WYSIWYG
> editing,
> thank-you-very-much.  Good bet at least 30-50% of Wikipedia's "power
> editors"
> are very well versed in MWtext[1], and how to use it to get what they
> want;
> I wouldn't recommend making it hard for those people to keep doing what
> they've
> been doing.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> [1] Yes, I've just made that statistic up, but I expect it will track
> with
> other similar statistics.

I'll admit to hating Wikia's new system, but so far this looks interesting.

Even there though you don't have to select it.

Fred Bauder



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