On 8/8/06, Christiaan Briggs
<christiaan(a)yurkycross.co.uk> wrote:
I know what the arguments are, I've heard
them all and
participated in many of the discussions. From my experience,
however, the *real* obstacle is an installed base of technocrats
who sees WYSIWYG as a threat to their positions
This is really not true at all. Both Wikia and SocialText are
working hard to get WYSIWYG right in MediaWiki. It's a big, big
challenge if you try to preserve wiki mark-up and functionality
(templates, magic words etc.) at the same time. We'd all love to
see it, but we can neither make existing Wikimedia content stop
working nor exclude users with disabilities or low-end software/
hardware from editing our projects in the process.