[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

Oliver Keyes scire.facias at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 09:37:26 UTC 2011


Not my call, but I'd totally support that.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 October 2011 08:06, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Surely making it only available to those users who understand markup
> > completely undermines one of the great unintended consequences - that
> it's
> > really useful for posting talkpage messages? New users can use those
> > templates in a *perfectly* meaningful way - as a way of communicating
> > instead of relying some pseudo-HTML markup language they're too new to
> > understand. They could communicate...ohh, I don't know, just off the top
> of
> > my head....maybe "can someone please explain to me how markup works?"
>
>
> Zee logical attack line would be to make one of the wikilove options
> (probably the first one) a simple "a message for you" rather than "a
> kitten for you" or "an ironclad battleship for you" or whatever the
> options are.
>
>
> --
> geni
>
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