[WikiEN-l] Why we need a good WYSIWYG editor

[Thomas Dalton]

2010/1/4 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/4 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
>
>> So lets not confuse the usability goals or making editing SIMPLE,
>> NON-INTIMIDATING, and DISCOVERABLE all of which are very much "wiki"
>> concepts, with the values of WYSIWYG which encourages increased but
>> hidden complexity.
>
>
> And never mind the actual numbers from Wikia, which look very like
> having a WYSIWYG system for presentational markup was *the* key to
> having people actually complete a planned edit rather than click
> 'edit', go "what on earth" at the computer guacamole and go away?

You need to look at more than just one number. Of course WYSIWYG will
increase the number of people completing edits, has anyone suggested
otherwise? The problems described in this thread aren't problems that
would show up in that number.