On Monday 04 Jan 2010 16:23:29 David Gerard wrote:
Edit completion rate - someone not merely clicking
"edit", but
actually editing and hitting save - goes *way* up. Based on Wikia's
experience:
http://wikiangela.com/blog/end-of-2009/#comment-26732
http://twitter.com/joshuaclerner/status/3602544810
Wikitext used to be a lot simpler. Now it's impenetrable computer
code. This is not good enough.
There are all sorts of reasons why WYSIWYG editing in Mediawiki is a
Hard Problem. But FCKeditor is really very good these days and I'd
strongly recommend it for any fresh wikis. Turning it loose on
existing piles of wikitext such as, ooh, en:wp, is probably a
different matter.
I personally detest all WYSIWYG web-based editors. They are slow and clunky
and produce broken markup, and just get in the way. I'm also not fond of
WYSIWYG word processors and prefer using XHTML or DocBook/XML or other non-
WYSIWYG markup languages. If you are going to enable such a feature, please
make it optional.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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