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From: "Ian Woollard" <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>
> a) Markup isn't very popular, everyone prefers
WYSIWYG in theory (but
I know how very difficult it is)
Other people - e.g. Wordpress - do a much better job at this than we do. While I'm at
it, facebook and flickr also do much better jobs at file uploads and google does a much
better job at email systems.
> c) References are probably the hardest bit, and
ultimately the most
important bit for the wikipedia. Anything that gets in the way
of that
for new users is probably very bad.
Personally, I also find tables the biggest pain in the neck. Always takes me ages to get
the formatting right - can't someone design some kind of Java interface that does it
for you??
> d) The view button is probably more important than
the save button,
and new editors should be pointed at it, because it
shows/reassures
them whether they're doing it right.
Well, yes and no. Pressing view means you have twice the chance of losing all your hard
work - once when you view and once when you save. That's why I never preview edits
when working on unstable connections - just save and re-edit if necessary.
Again, wordpress does this much better. Two tabs you can switch between, and you can add
content direct within the WYSIWYG viewer.
Andrew