On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Jan Paul Posma jp.posma@gmail.com wrote:
The last few weeks I've worked on some prototypes to illustrate this idea. You can find the most advanced prototype here: http://janpaulposma.nl/sle/prototype/prototype3.html The full project proposal and prototypes can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JanPaul123/Sentence-level_editing
Right now I'm not looking for anything in specific, just whether or not you think this is a good idea, technically feasible, etc. If you have suggestions of any kind I'll be happy to hear them!
This looks like an excellent incremental improvement in editing usability. One major problem I've seen (anecdotally) with people trying to edit typical Wikipedia articles is that they get intimidated by the wall of wikitext, which often has large templates and things obscuring the text they were trying to get at. I think the problem of wikitext complexity will be greatly mitigated if you can go into some edit mode where you can just click a sentence to edit it. New users can then readily ignore the funny square brackets and such, and we don't have to deal with trying to convert between WYSIWYG and wikitext.