2009/3/31 WJhonson@aol.com:
<<In a message dated 3/31/2009 10:58:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
The plumbing of templates is horrible, but the actual template interface is simple. Presumably WYSIWYG editing tools can be tweaked to make it a fill-in form more accessibly.>>
This would be the BOMB, the absolute frickin ultimate BOMB. (That means a good thing.) I hate long templates esp. because I can never remember the component names. So I tend to just stick to my old way of doing things and let others fancy it up later. Some templates (to my mind) are just utterly stupid. But if they came up as a form, that would certainly simplify everything.
Yeah. Current WYSIWYG editors either (a) sorta do a subset of actual wiki markup or (b) just fill the page with raw HTML. But I understand they're advancing. There's enough demand for them on corporate intranets and suchlike that you can be sure any WYSIWYG editor will be thoroughly debugged before it hits Wikimedia sites.
- d.