[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[Delphine Ménard]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 17:48, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
>
>> For what it's worth, I think WYSIWYG is evil. But there is probably a
>> middle path between cluttered text and Word-like unstructuration.
>
>
> It shouldn't be worse than wikitext - wikitext isn't any more
> structured than Word. It's a display markup code that translates into
> HTML, not  a document structure code.

Maybe not, but it mostly forces some kind of structure if you want it
to look "pretty". Which WYSIWYG doesn't. You can just bold up stuff
and make it size 40 and it looks like a header, but isn't one. That's
what I mean with "structure", if that make sense.

Delphine

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