On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM, vitalif@yourcmc.ru wrote:
Improving usability is good, but targetting at people who don't want to be "technically proficient" (emphasis: DON'T WANT TO BE, not just "ARE NOT") and just want to press a magic button and "that's all" is not good.
I strongly disagree, as does community consensus on this point.
There are barriers we need to have between would-be editors and the content - such as basic competence in the language, lack of conflict of interest, willingness to be a participant in shared editing processes. Technically, the presence of a web browser is a legitimate barrier, but the "learn wikitext or else" one is bogus.