On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:27 PM Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If someone's less familiar with something, they're likely to volunteer to > contribute using it. It doesn't matter if it's Markdown, TeX (is that > still a thing? I last used it 30-odd years ago) or the solution du jour - > anything that "needs learning" is an extra step to be dealt with before > useful contribution can take place. > I think the beauty of Markdown is that it provides a really low barrier to entry. People can still write plain text and it would still be valid Markdown. And there is very little a non-Markdown-versed user can do mess it up so that what they want to say is rendered unintelligible. Furthermore, the OSM website extensively uses Markdown (the kramdown variant) in the user diaries, comments, and inter-user messaging so it's not as if we are introducing a markup language that is unknown for the experienced OSM user.
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