On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.  I'm new here and I wish to help out here as well.  I don't have the 
> full picture of what is being discussed seeing that the e-Mail I tried to 
> read it too long.  From what I understand it that the wiki markup editor is 
> being replaced with a graphic editor with a completely new markup processor.  
> My opinion on this is that that is a bad idea because there are millions of 
> experienced users who are used to working with Wiki-Markup codes.  My opinion 
> on the matter is to have the graphic editor available side by side with the 
> markup editor being able to choose at will which editor people would like to 
> edit with.  Default preferences can be set.  The graphic editor will 
> translate the page into Wiki-Markup and save.  This method will be more 
> efficient for the programmers saving time and resources.  Any thoughts?
>
That's exactly what we're already doing. Trevor said [1] that "we have
no plan or intention to (...) disable markup (plain text) editing".

Roan

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/2012-February/000543.html

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