On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Wikis are supposed to be easy to edit.
Wikitext is not easy to edit. It's incredibly confusing and intimidating to any normal person. The only thing that would be easy to edit is something WYSIWYG-based. And AFAICT, the only way we're going to get that is to use some kind of backend storage that can round-trip sensibly with HTML. It doesn't have to be XML-based, but it needs to be a lot simpler (from a programming standpoint, not a human standpoint) than what we have now.
But there would be transition costs here that are prohibitive in the medium term. Hopefully at some point we'll have the resources to devote to this, but in the short to medium term, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that will give much better usability improvements per dev-hour than getting WYSIWYG reliable enough to deploy.