[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When so many people are turned off by syntax of any kind, it makes sense to
prevent them to see such syntax. It should be there however for those who do
not consider it a turn off.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2008/12/7 Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>

> Brian wrote:
> > Thank you Erik!
> > But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been
> > appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies
> > would have been put to a large scale trial sooner. It is not just about
> the
> > facts contained in template data. With these extensions more advanced
> wiki
> > users can design information architectures that abstract away all of the
> > complicated syntax.
> >
> > Isn't that what this is about? WYSIWYG can only do so much unless you
> plan
> > to re-implement the parser in javascript.
>
> The relevant parts of the parser can quite easily be ported to JavaScript.
> That's well within the reach of a project on this scale and it will
> certainly be considered.
>
> Non-technical users seem to be put off by syntax of any kind, simple or
> complex.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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