Hoi,
I know, but it's a hell a problem in marketing mediawiki to minorities. They
mostly already have problems with the IT as such, and first thing you do is
tell them they cannot simply "hit enter".
I already had a major project deleting wikimedia and switch to Drupal
because users rate that editing mediawiki is too weird, and most users
were... british. Imagine the equivalent result in an alpine community.
BTW, imagine what it means in terms of lost contributors for en.wiki.
Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:34 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity
On 29/04/07, Berto 'd Sera <albertoserra(a)ukr.net> wrote:
Yes, that's your main problem in a small wiki. You
also have to get people
use to that idiotic wiki-markup (WHEN will we have a NORMAL WYSIWYG?????)
This is a vexed question. The technical reason is that MediaWiki
markup doesn't have a specification - the specification is, quite
literally, the PHP code in the parser.
There have been various attempts to write the specification out in
EBNF format. However, this is actually mathematically *impossible*. So
all such attempts at doing so have gotten to 90% and died.
Put it this way: liberate MediaWiki from the PHP parser code and the
devs will worship you.
- d.
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