[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

Stephen Gilbert canuck_in_korea2002 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 31 07:18:58 UTC 2002


--- lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> As comfortable as all of us are with HTML, /we/
> aren't the kind of 
> people we want editing articles (except maybe those
> on computer 
> subjects).  We want Bridge players writing about
> Bridge, and cat 
> breeders writing about cats, and campers writing
> about camping--the 
> kind of people who have never even heard of HTML are
> the kind of 
> people we want most to attract and make use of.  We
> computer nerds 
> are used to dealing with special syntaxes; it is we
> who should adapt 
> to them, not the other way around.

Hear, hear! You have convinced me sir. I say we phase
out the HTML and use Wiki markup exclusively.

Stephen G.

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