On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:08:20PM +0100, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
On 10 Aug 2006, at 6:33 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
But again: the amount of wikitext markup syntax you have to carry around in your head to use it approaches zero more closely than anything else I've ever worked with.
And what you think matters not one iota when it comes to other people's experiences.
Well, I dunno; I've made a reasonably comfortable living for the last two decades exercising professional judgement about software design, so I suspect my opinions are neither *merely* opinions, nor worthless.
People are different from you and many of usthink it's worth catering for those differences in order to broaden participation in Wikimedia projects.
Well, your original argument actually soudned like it was as much concerned with catering to *non* WMF projects, to me, but as far as WMF projects are concerned...
people will code what they will code, if it scratches their itch, and brion and Tim will decide whether to roll it in, based on what scratches *theirs*, and each of our opinions will be but one small datapoint in that constellation...
Cheers, -- jra