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

[THURNER rupert]

particularly i like the table editor. i'd be even tempted to edit on
wikia and later copy the table to wikipedia :)

rupert.


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:07, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/12/7 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yeah, that's where WYSIWYG gets tricky - the complicated bits can only
>> really be done in code, so what do you do when someone using the
>> WYSISYG interface tries to edit a page which includes complicated
>> bits? I'm sure it can be done, but not easily.
>
> Templates and complicated parts can easily be hidden. See
> <http://robotech.wikia.com/index.php?title=Sandbox&action=edit> for
> example to see what happens to the {{sandbox}} template. Wikia has
> been working on WYSIWYG for a long time now, and I hope the code that
> is available at
> http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be
> useful to Wikimedia in improving usability.
>
> Angela
>
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