the wiki editing needs to be more user-friendly

[Paul O'Malley]

Matthew East wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:33 +0000, Paul O'Malley wrote:
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>>Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote:
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>>>>Moin 1.5 still has issues on WYSIWYG though we should probably wait
>>>>for a few more releases before actually embracing it on our current
>>>>Moin.IMHO, I am very happy with current Moin version we have. A java editor
>>>>is not my ideal editor but it sure is a simple way to edit pages to many
>>>>people, and even encourages others to make nicer docs (esp. tables!, if
>>>>you have been there).
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>>Yes, I acknoledge that there are free implementations, however to do 
>>this you would have to document the java install on the wiki at the 
>>"editing link" on every page not hard to do but if you are new to the 
>>game and want to participate, it may be fair to say that you consider 
>>that the bar is high enough already.
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>Let's be honest about this, the bar isn't actually that high. All that
>is necessary to understand formatting on the wiki is to read the text
>underneath the edit box. I'm all in favour of making it easy to
>contribute, but if users go away because they can't read that text, or
>don't read the WikiGuide page, I don't think we can or should do much
>about this.
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>Naturally, the burden is still on us to make the help as good and as
>visible as possible, so that those who want to contribute can do so. We
>should also make it clear that material can be mailed to the mailing
>list instead of inserted directly into the wiki.
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>Matt
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Hi Matt,

I now know I did not communicate my message correctly.
The bar is where it is, it works why break/fix it. :-)

regards,

Paul