On 14 December 2011 02:57, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Once the wikitext parser (which is, of course, the hard part) is ready to be bolted in, that should give a big improvement in Wikipedia's accessibility for new editors -- almost everyone knows how to use a word processor.
As you say, it's the wikitext bit that's hard. Without that, a wysiwyg editor is reasonably simple (we could have just used the one Wikia created, perhaps with a few modifications). The challenge is having pages that can be edited both by wysiwyg and in wikitext without the two tripping over each other. That's why I'm going to keep the cork firmly in the champagne bottle until we're asked to test that bit (I'll keep the bottle on ice, though, because this looks like a great start!).