To be honest, I don't even see how a message about Apple's new WYSIWYG wiki even came to be posted to this mailing list - *The MediaWiki announcements and site admin list*. Great, you're looking forward to ditching MediaWiki. The thing is, *we really don't care*. Go away, what do you expect, people begging you to use MediaWiki? It's free software, no-one here is making anything out of it! Now I'm wasting my time reading all this. Yes, you could say "why not bother then, we're not making you" but I felt I had to add this.
Thank you.
-- gary kirk
On 8/9/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On 9 Aug 2006, at 4:09 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
On 8/8/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
I know what the arguments are, I've heard them all and participated in many of the discussions. From my experience, however, the *real* obstacle is an installed base of technocrats who sees WYSIWYG as a threat to their positions
This is really not true at all. Both Wikia and SocialText are working hard to get WYSIWYG right in MediaWiki. It's a big, big challenge if you try to preserve wiki mark-up and functionality (templates, magic words etc.) at the same time. We'd all love to see it, but we can neither make existing Wikimedia content stop working nor exclude users with disabilities or low-end software/ hardware from editing our projects in the process.
"We'd all love to see it" Are you sure about that Erik?
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