Yeah, fair points. Couldn't agree more.
Christiaan
On 11 Aug 2006, at 1:30 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/11/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On 11 Aug 2006, at 11:51 AM, mboverload wrote:
What does Wikipedia need WYSIWYG? We already have noobs writing POV articles, now you want ...
And there's an example of the attitude I was talking in my first post. It's curious in that it accepts that wiki markup is barrier to participation but that this is somehow a good thing.
Sometimes barriers to participation *are* a good thing. Various online communities have noticed that the harder you make it to participate, the better quality participants you get.
OTOH, Wikipedia explicitly wants contributions from *everyone*, even if they are 14 and have trouble spelling Pokémon...