On 02/05/11 17:31, Daniel Friesen wrote: > I wouldn't say more relevant for Wikimedia than Wikia, but more relevant > for encyclopedia that care about their wikitext than a social wiki run > by newbies who don't even know what wikitext or a template is.
I am looking forward to a future when even experienced Wikipedia editors won't know or care what wikitext is. Just because Wikipedia is a serious project doesn't mean we have to make our editors care about markup. > Most of the wiki I was involved in on Wikia all have the RTE disabled > because the RTE made additional unwanted changes when editing destroying > diffs, in one case destroyed a bulleted list item every time the page > was edited, That sounds like a bug. Is there a test case? Was it reported to Wikia's bug tracker? Was it fixed? Is it theoretically fixable? This is the sort of thing I've heard before, but I need test cases or a pointer to the relevant code so I can evaluate it properly. > and also increased the number of new users making bad edits > like inserting an image in the middle of a run of text because on their > monitor in the WYSIWYG editor it was aligned where they thought it > should be. Conversely, I've seen a lot of new users making edits to Wikipedia which are completely broken due to them not understanding some detail of how wikitext works, for example, putting a space at the start of a line, or pressing the enter button for a new line instead of <br/>. I don't think using wikitext is the best way to make things easier for new users. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
