[Wikipedia-l] Please help test new features

[The Cunctator]

On 7/2/03 2:56 PM, "Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:

> Brion-
>> It's also mysteriously in a table and there are no line breaks. :)
> 
> I think it looks nicer in a table, but that's easy to change in Skin.php.
> 
>> I notice that duplicate headings (which is not unlikely to occur with
>> subheadings) are marked with a numbered suffix after the first one. Better
>> than nothing, but this is fragile for linking; if the major sections are
>> rearranged in order, the numbers for the minor sections will change.
> 
> So what else do you suggest?
> 
>> Indeed. If we're adding features to make it easier to edit, I'm not sure
>> it makes sense to hide them from new users...
> 
> My reasoning for this was that Wikipedia has two uses:
> - a work of reference
> - a collaborative editing system used by us.
> 
> We need to find the right balance between making editing easy and making
> reading Wikipedia unobtrusive. Some work on this is being done in the Skin
> department, for example, where we will probably end up with a Skin
> preferred by editors, and one that is more friendly to non-editing users.

This would be a terrible violation of the basic Wiki-nature of Wikipedia.