On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 19:04, Trevor Parscal
<tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
While from a user's perspective the various
editors seen on the page you
linked to appear to be drop-in replacements for the current plain text
solution, I can assure you that there are many other reasons for not yet
deploying them on Wikipedia that go far beyond our ability to provide
users with a preference to turn them off.
Many wikis use MediaWiki beside Wikipedia.
An existing example of us providing users with
such an option however
can be seen in the ability to turn various editing-related gadgets such
as wikiEd. I think this shows that should a more visual editing
interface become able to be deployed, we certainly would make it optional.
Exactly. Each editor has its own incompatible setting which allows it
to be turned on or off. Basically, each extension assumes it is going
to be the one and only one editor for the wiki. If you install more
than one, things will break. A unified preference might have been
useful. Anyway, no big deal.
Extensions can add their own preferences more easily now. Adding a
default preference to turn off a feature that doesn't yet exist in
MediaWiki core doesn't make much sense.
--
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)