On 14 Mar 2005, at 13:53, Rowan Collins wrote:
Well, *extremely* early on in the development of wiki software, the choice was made to favour *simplicity*... you were just typing text with the odd CamelCaseLinkPattern in.
So let people enter plain text! What's wrong with that? Why must EVERY USER be a graphic artist? (I assure you, they are not!)
With the exception of [[square brackets]] instead of CamelCase, one can use MediaWiki in pretty much the same way as one uses c2.com, no?
The only exception I can bring to mind is if unsophisticated users are interested in correcting typos in heavily-marked-up text. And if that's the case, nothing short of a full WYSIWYG authoring environment is going to do the job. (Those who are seeking "full WYSIWYG", take a look at GoLive or Dreamweaver. Do you really want to turn THAT loose on your unsophisticated users?)
Page authors should either assume THEY are going to be doing 95% of the maintenance, on they should KISS the complications goodbye, and make it inviting for less sophisticated users.
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