[Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

[Steve VanSlyck]

could you give an example?

----- Original Message -----
From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:41:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

> On 31 May 2010 23:37, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
> >> (b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English
> >> Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every
> >> possible emergent side-effect for editor's use.
> 
> > ?????
> 
> 
> en:wp not only uses ridiculous contortions of wikitext routinely, it
> seems to iteratively explore the furthest reaches of stuff that the
> parser just *happens* to do then turn them into normal parts of
> editing. That's why new editors hit "edit" on en:wp, are confronted
> with what may as well be an uneditable binary and run away never to
> hit "edit" again [*].
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> [*] possibly a slight exaggeration
> 
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