Please don't take this as a direct hit but ..

I have seen similar in many postings and have to say that it is just not true. There is no reason that a WYSIWYG editor would not give the same control. The fact that there is not a good answer now is one thing .. but thinking that all users *should be* programmers is .. well not right (to my way of thinking).

wikiText does give you a little *simpler* method over straight html but a good editor would be much preferable even to a coder like me. It is great to SEE what it is you are doing. Some coders use syntax checking, code complete etc. Just more tools.

thanks

DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Christensen, Courtney Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:45 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikitext

Hi Emanuele,

When I am teaching people HTML or wikitext, I like to let people know up front that it will require a little more brain-power than they are used to with Word and similar, but that they will have a ton more control over the final outcome if they stick to the slightly more technical method. <snip>