New subject: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?

31 May 2010


      could you give an example?
----- Original Message -----
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:41:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?
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On 31 May 2010 23:37, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
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(b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English
Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every
possible emergent side-effect for editor's use.
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?????
en:wp not only uses ridiculous contortions of wikitext routinely, it
seems to iteratively explore the furthest reaches of stuff that the
parser just *happens* to do then turn them into normal parts of
editing. That's why new editors hit "edit" on en:wp, are confronted
with what may as well be an uneditable binary and run away never to
hit "edit" again [*].

d.

[*] possibly a slight exaggeration

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