[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 15:46:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I think WYSIWYG is evil. But there is probably a
> middle path between cluttered text and Word-like unstructuration.

What has WYSIWYG ever done to you? :)

What about some kind of separation? We put together a gadget that
reads the text when you open an edit window and moves all the
complicated stuff (refs, complicated infobox templates, etc) out of
the main edit window and into a secondary edit window? When you click
"Save" the javascript reinserts the data before sending it off to the
server. This idea is off the top of my head and is obviously not
perfect, but does this kind of concept address your concerns?

--Andrew Whitwoth




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