Hoi,
I know, but it's a hell a problem in marketing mediawiki to minorities. They mostly already have problems with the IT as such, and first thing you do is tell them they cannot simply "hit enter".
I already had a major project deleting wikimedia and switch to Drupal because users rate that editing mediawiki is too weird, and most users were... british. Imagine the equivalent result in an alpine community.
BTW, imagine what it means in terms of lost contributors for en.wiki.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:34 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity
On 29/04/07, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Yes, that's your main problem in a small wiki. You also have to get people use to that idiotic wiki-markup (WHEN will we have a NORMAL WYSIWYG?????)
This is a vexed question. The technical reason is that MediaWiki markup doesn't have a specification - the specification is, quite literally, the PHP code in the parser.
There have been various attempts to write the specification out in EBNF format. However, this is actually mathematically *impossible*. So all such attempts at doing so have gotten to 90% and died.
Put it this way: liberate MediaWiki from the PHP parser code and the devs will worship you.
- d.
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