On 8/8/06, Christiaan Briggs <christiaan(a)yurkycross.co.uk> wrote:
I know what the arguments are, I've heard them all
and participated
in many of the discussions. From my experience, however, the *real*
obstacle is an installed base of technocrats who sees WYSIWYG as a
threat to their positions
This is really not true at all. Both Wikia and SocialText are working
hard to get WYSIWYG right in MediaWiki. It's a big, big challenge if
you try to preserve wiki mark-up and functionality (templates, magic
words etc.) at the same time. We'd all love to see it, but we can
neither make existing Wikimedia content stop working nor exclude users
with disabilities or low-end software/hardware from editing our
projects in the process.
Erik