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From: "Mathias Schindler" mathias.schindler@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:34:00 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWTF working demo On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
What I would like is some discussion about
- if this approach (working pseudo-WYSIWYG instead of unattainable
perfect WYSIWYG) is the way to go
- if the code I wrote would be a suitable basis for a system we can
throw at the general public
- if anyone is willing to help me with that
I love it and for the sake of demonstration the deep impact of the approach, I recommend one minor change:
- deactivate or hide or shrink the "read" and "edit" tab as they are
now obsolete or make the WYSIWTF tab the default display.
Are like hell.
Some people -- you can include me in this -- *actively* hate WYSIWYG editing, thank-you-very-much. Good bet at least 30-50% of Wikipedia's "power editors" are very well versed in MWtext[1], and how to use it to get what they want; I wouldn't recommend making it hard for those people to keep doing what they've been doing.
Cheers, -- jra
[1] Yes, I've just made that statistic up, but I expect it will track with other similar statistics.