Why should I have to learn yet another -- extremely cryptic and counter-intuitive -- markup language, just so I can volunteer for the privilege of writing an encyclopedia?
In other words, why would you (y'all, I'm not addressing Cunc in specific) want to discourage me?
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of The Cunctator Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 08:34 To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing
On 7/27/02 11:24 AM, "tarquin" tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and <i> in wiki markup, but I change those to the equivalent ' whenever I see them, and I don't
think
they should be encouraged.
That's what deprecating means.
I think it's good practice to discourage HTML, but not ban it. TMTOWTDI.
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