On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Maximilian Doerr cybernet678@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello. I'm new here and I wish to help out here as well. I don't have the full picture of what is being discussed seeing that the e-Mail I tried to read it too long. From what I understand it that the wiki markup editor is being replaced with a graphic editor with a completely new markup processor. My opinion on this is that that is a bad idea because there are millions of experienced users who are used to working with Wiki-Markup codes. My opinion on the matter is to have the graphic editor available side by side with the markup editor being able to choose at will which editor people would like to edit with. Default preferences can be set. The graphic editor will translate the page into Wiki-Markup and save. This method will be more efficient for the programmers saving time and resources. Any thoughts?
That's exactly what we're already doing. Trevor said [1] that "we have no plan or intention to (...) disable markup (plain text) editing".
Roan
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/2012-February/000543.html