On 10 Aug 2006, at 5:24 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Expand, then, on your point, based on Wikipedia's article count and sustained network transfer rates.
I don't know of any way to prove this point when it comes to Wikipedia. If people are put off by wiki markup (which I know, anecdotally, they are) this is not going to show up in any Wikipedia data I know of. Possibly edit clicks vs. exits?
However, I think I have enough experience trying to get people to participate on Wikipedia and on our local intranet (which uses MediaWiki) to be worthy of reporting. I also have my own personal experience, which is that I don't like using wiki markup, I don't like relearning it each time I use it, and I don't like seeing a sea of monospaced text every time I use it. So I understand their point of view.
In any case my point has already been answered. There are already moves afoot to prioritise and bring some sort of WYSIWYG to MediaWiki from what some people have said.
Christiaan