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From: "Mathias Schindler" mathias.schindler@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:34:00 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWTF working demo On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
What I would like is some discussion about
- if this approach (working pseudo-WYSIWYG instead of unattainable
perfect WYSIWYG) is the way to go
- if the code I wrote would be a suitable basis for a system we can
throw at the general public
- if anyone is willing to help me with that
I love it and for the sake of demonstration the deep impact of the approach, I recommend one minor change:
- deactivate or hide or shrink the "read" and "edit" tab as they are
now obsolete or make the WYSIWTF tab the default display.
Are like hell.
Some people -- you can include me in this -- *actively* hate WYSIWYG editing, thank-you-very-much. Good bet at least 30-50% of Wikipedia's "power editors" are very well versed in MWtext[1], and how to use it to get what they want; I wouldn't recommend making it hard for those people to keep doing what they've been doing.
Cheers, -- jra
[1] Yes, I've just made that statistic up, but I expect it will track with other similar statistics.
I'll admit to hating Wikia's new system, but so far this looks interesting.
Even there though you don't have to select it.
Fred Bauder