On 8/14/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
My point is that if you start losing users, you're in trouble. No-one's threatening stagnation, we're simply trying to argue that restricting editing to a fancy interface is a bad idea...locking people out of the underlying markup layer is a bad idea...there is no unwillingness to move forward. I haven't said "this is a shit idea and Jimbo is a moron", have I?
Allow me to alienate everyone by proposing the controversial idea that if we made life easier on novice users, at the expense of hardcore users (who are "locked out" and hence leave Wikipedia for ever), Wikipedia would still be better off?
Discuss.
Steve