Interesting.
I find the switch to 3row textarea from content a little jarring. A
further developed version could make use of contentEditable to provide
the same editing ability but without the negative side effects of the
textarea.
Actually, showing the original wikitext is one of the goals of this user-interface. The
goal of this project is to lower the barriers for novice users, and providing a better way
for them to learn the wikitext syntax. Hiding the wikitext completely would defeat this
purpose.
In the best cases novice users would first edit some sentences, while noticing the
wikitext syntax, but only some links and perhaps bold/italics. This is much less scary
than a big textarea with lots of code. Then they may experiment with references, images,
templates (once these are implemented), so they can slowly learn more. Eventually they can
either be advanced users of this editor, or try the editor we have now, which will always
be more powerful. The editor I'm proposing *isn't* a total replacement for the
current editor, just an addition.
Best regards, Jan Paul