[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 23 December 2010 11:48, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not everybody works that way. Most of us don't.  To those people the
> buttons I find annoying may be the only thing they *do* understand,
> they're the most accessible way of using a computer, and a user
> interface lacking those buttons is alien and incomprehensible. With
> the buttons, these people are intuitively able to produce a reasonable
> minimal subset of tasks immediately as long as the result of their
> work is displayed immediately (WYSIWYG).
> It's still annoying, though.


Yeah. It won't be a happener on WMF sites, I think, until WMF has
money to throw at developers to develop something that actually works
and has fidelity with wikitext as it's used. This is a *big and hairy*
problem that interested parties have been dashing their foreheads
against for *years*.


- d.