On 23 December 2010 02:37, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)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.