On 02/05/11 17:31, Daniel Friesen wrote:
I wouldn't say more relevant for Wikimedia than Wikia, but more relevant for encyclopedia that care about their wikitext than a social wiki run by newbies who don't even know what wikitext or a template is.
I am looking forward to a future when even experienced Wikipedia editors won't know or care what wikitext is. Just because Wikipedia is a serious project doesn't mean we have to make our editors care about markup.
Most of the wiki I was involved in on Wikia all have the RTE disabled because the RTE made additional unwanted changes when editing destroying diffs, in one case destroyed a bulleted list item every time the page was edited,
That sounds like a bug. Is there a test case? Was it reported to Wikia's bug tracker? Was it fixed? Is it theoretically fixable?
This is the sort of thing I've heard before, but I need test cases or a pointer to the relevant code so I can evaluate it properly.
and also increased the number of new users making bad edits like inserting an image in the middle of a run of text because on their monitor in the WYSIWYG editor it was aligned where they thought it should be.
Conversely, I've seen a lot of new users making edits to Wikipedia which are completely broken due to them not understanding some detail of how wikitext works, for example, putting a space at the start of a line, or pressing the enter button for a new line instead of <br/>. I don't think using wikitext is the best way to make things easier for new users.
-- Tim Starling