On 23 December 2010 02:37, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I have to disagree strongly with the calls for WYSIWYG editing, not that it's likely to materialize anytime soon. Wikipedia needs to encourage people to concentrate on meaningful content, not dick around with cosmetic matters.
I think our current markup is one of our biggest barriers to participation.
I don't have WMF numbers, but one contributor on mediawiki-l, who runs an intranet covering a large public service organisation in the US, reported a remarkable uptake in wiki participation just by going to FCKeditor. The users are smart, capable and competent people in their fields, but were seriously put off by wikitext.
- d.