[Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity

[David Gerard]

On 29/04/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


That's a sweet thought, but in practice it puts people off writing at all.

By the way, is '' and ''' in the virtuous Wiki markup content or presentation?


- d.