On 23 December 2010 10:33, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I find that kind of stuff hopelessly confusing and off-putting, and I would hate to have to use it, but I take your point that it might improve takeup for people who find to messing with complex toolbars easier than learning half a dozen simple text markup rules ([[a|b]], [a b], ''italic'', ''bold''',' <ref name=></ref>, ==section==).
To clarify my skepticism, the complexity of Wikipedia doesn't arise at the user interface level at all but at the level of social interaction. This is unavoidable because you're dealing with other human beings, not a machine. The complexity is necessary, even desirable, for exactly the same reason.