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Steve Bennett wrote:
I'm not sure I share the attitude that the only way to avoid Wikipedians making incredibly ugly articles with too much character formatting is to make it difficult for them.
There's a difference between making things difficult and not making shortcuts for those things. You could look at wikitext as HTML on steroids: non-SGML shortcuts for the most commonly used formatting, but after that you have to use HTML.
If we make a WYSIWIG editor, I wouldn't give users a box to pick colors with. I probably wouldn't let them change font either (though switching to monospace is acceptable) or let them change font size. If they want to do that, let them switch to HTML mode and write the HTML themselves.