[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[Delphine Ménard]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 17:37, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You're right, the way we currently do references results in a complete
>> mess. It requires some development work to make any progress, I think
>> - I'll take a look at the relevant code and see if it can be done
>> easily.
>
> Some kind of syntax highlighting might be good (we obviously have
> syntax highlighting extensions already installed, the trick now is
> just making it work in the edit window). Syntax folding might be a
> nice addition too, but I've never seen that in a working web
> interface. WYSIWYG is obviously the ultimate goal, but progress on
> that has been understandably slow. There are some interesting helpful
> editing extensions available, maybe some of them need to be evaluated
> and good cross-platform features could be folded into MediaWiki's core
> eventually.

For what it's worth, I think WYSIWYG is evil. But there is probably a
middle path between cluttered text and Word-like unstructuration.

To some extent, I am thinking that this difficult in editing might
prompt vandalism (It's all gibberish anyway, so who cares") and
prevent participation ("I seriously tried to edit this page to make
this grammatical mistake go away, but I just couldn't".)

Delphine
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