[Mediawiki-l] what-you-see-is-what-you-get edit program?

[Sterling D. Allan]

It seems to me that early on the development curve of wiki software made a 
choice (a bad one, in my opinion) to go the code direction rather than the 
WYSIWYG direction.  The longer they linger in code, the harder it will be to 
do a course correction to a WYSIWYG interface, which is really where this 
needs to be to draw from the widest pool of contributors around the planet 
and see the wiki achieve its full potential.  The chasm presently is so 
great that the typical developer is probably going to be scared off by the 
daunting task.  Overwhelming.

Perhaps PESWiki can provide some leadership by combining these two and 
showing how well it works to do so.

Sterling Allan
http://peswiki.com

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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] what-you-see-is-what-you-get edit program?


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When I ask regular readers why they don't contribute, the most common
response is they're not experts in anything, they don't feel they have
anything to add.  A close runner-up is that they tried once but got
frustrated; they're not sure where to add an idea, or how the syntax
works; or they don't have time.  The clearer and more intuitive the
editing interface, the faster the learning curve, and the fewer people
who will think they don't have time to figure it out.

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+sj+