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