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?
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing
On 7/27/02 11:24 AM, "tarquin" <tarquin(a)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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