On 8/14/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
But, to answer your question, yes. Haven't seen a lot of problems with newbies, most of the problems seem to come from oldbies.
Really? I'll be darned. Ok.
Ok, there are different sorts of problems, I'm a bit biased by a stupid dispute I'm witnessing between two old-timers, who for the last year have been arguing incessantly over whether the population of Paris is about 2 million, or about 10 million.
Sigh.
Anyway I probably went a bit overboard there on "zero effort" contributors. Shall we say that there are roughly three categories: 1) Total newbies 2) Casual contributors 3) Serious contributors
All three would benefit from a good WYSIWYG. Lack of a good GUI is likely to put off some categorie 1s from becoming category 2s. Lack of powerful editing features is likely to turn off category 3s. Excessive separation of WYSIWYG and Wikitext may prevent category 2s becoming category 3s.
Steve