On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:56:54PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/13/06, Edward Z. Yang edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com wrote:
The bottom-line is WYSIWYG is an even worse offender of causing people to base things around presentation rather than structure. Granted, wikitext can be abused, but when all that extra possible styling is stuffed away in esoteric <span>s and <div>s, it will prevent most Joe Averages from excessively formatting text.
I'm not sure I share the attitude that the only way to avoid Wikipedians making incredibly ugly articles with too much character formatting is to make it difficult for them.
Can we agree to find a more neutral way to phrase "making it difficult for them", given that neither side has anything more than anecdotal data on whether, in fact, people do find working with wikitext more difficult, and that clearly some people think that wikitext is *not* more difficult.
Cheers, -- jra