[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 28 December 2010 12:33, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Wasn't the whole idea of wiki markup to have something simple that
> anybody can learn?  It should continue to be the case that the essential
> wiki markup can fit onto a single page that an editor can print ans pin
> to the wall beside his computer as a cheat-sheet.  What doesn't fit on
> that page isn't basic.


There's various levels here, all of which need to be removed:

* What doesn't fit on a single-page printed cheat sheet isn't basic.
* What doesn't fit in a pop-up box on a single screen isn't basic.
* What doesn't fit in a line under the edit box isn't basic.
* Wikitext isn't basic unless you assume HTML, which you can't.

Wikitext is however powerful, and there are 160,000 editors in any
given month on en:wp who cope with it. But that's a drop in the ocean.


- d.