On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)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.