[Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity

[Berto 'd Sera]

Hoi!

I've been using drupal for months now with lots of different skins and never
had any such problem. If what you allow is regular XHTML you have no reason
to worry.

Anyway, the effect of wiki-markup is that it separetes users from a service
they should receive (being able to edit). I'd say it's more relevant than
the way we "look".

Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
 

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:02 PM
To: wikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity

> Yes, that's your main problem in a small wiki. You also have to get people
> use to that idiotic wiki-markup (WHEN will we have a NORMAL WYSIWYG?????)
> and they are good scratch-boxes.

The problem with WYSIWYG is that it goes against the concept of
separating content and presentation. There are lots of different ways
of displaying the same wikitext (see all the different skins, but
that's only the beginning of what is theoretically possible), WYSIWYG
encourages people to write stuff that only looks right in the skin
that's used on the edit page. Writing in code encourages people to
just write the content and let the skin worry about the presentation,
which is generally preferable.

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