Stephen Gilbert sgilbert@nbnet.nb.ca writes:
"Easy" and "difficult" are subjective.
:) Yes, you are right.
The main point is that it raises the bar for participation. Yu could no longer just drop by and make edits; you would first have to learn about the markup language before doing anything. As it stands, you don't have to know about the wiki syntax to do most things.
Perhaps. But people destroy lists all the time: adding innocent line break or new line and with a sudden you broke one list into two lists.
Or they write "See [[xxx]]" or "''See also:'' [[xxx]]", etc. Providing appropriate "tags" like "<seealso>" can help for better uniformity.
I think that if Wikipedia ever puts out a "stable" version for distribution, the articles should be structured with XML. That's a job for dedicated editors with a good knowledge of document structure. Forcing it on the live wiki would, in my unproven opinion, by harmful.
Perhaps. Nevertheless, I'd like to give it a try; I'm seriously interested in a Wiki using the TEI DTD as its markup language. Unfortunately, my resources (time, knowlegde in hacking) are too limited to such a project come true on my own.