[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[The Cunctator]

On 7/27/02 11:51 AM, "Sean Barrett" <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:

> Why should I have to learn yet another -- extremely cryptic and
> counter-intuitive -- markup language, just so I can volunteer for the
> privilege of writing an encyclopedia?
> 
> In other words, why would you (y'all, I'm not addressing Cunc in
> specific) want to discourage me?

I don't think you should be discouraged. I just think that we should only
encourage one way (for style, consistency, simplicity) but allow other ways.
HTML should be treated with benign neglect.

In other words, you don't have to learn anything, but if you want to, you
can.