A new way of editing was introduced some time ago but now taking concrete form. Its the wikipedia visual editor. You can now edit wikipedia articles the way you edit your word and google docs documents

Login into your wikipedia account. Locate the preferences link at the top right. Then under editing tab, check the enable visual editor.

Start editing just the way you wanted. No need for those clumpsy looking syntax of Wikimedia. Though that served the purposes perfectly, abetter way of achieving editing is in.

Sign onto it today.

Happy editing