[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 07:37 pm, LDC wrote:
> As comfortable as all of us are with HTML, /we/ aren't the kind of
> people we want editing articles (except maybe those on computer
> subjects).  

I agree.

>We want Bridge players writing about Bridge, and cat
> breeders writing about cats, and campers writing about camping--the
> kind of people who have never even heard of HTML are the kind of
> people we want most to attract and make use of.  We computer nerds
> are used to dealing with special syntaxes; it is we who should adapt
> to them, not the other way around.

Wow... LDC you just beautifully crystalized the issue. Something like the 
above paragraph should be on the editing policy page. 

--mav