[Development] Call for Volunteers: SSO-improvements for qt-project.org

[André Pönitz]

On Thursday 08 December 2011 13:01:43 ext Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>   [...] to echo and amplify what Stephen has said:
> 
>   WYSIWYG editors may be easier for novice wikipedians to use, but
>   markup-based editors are far easier for experienced people to use
>   and get the results precisely correct (where "precisely correct" means
>   exactly conformant to the intended "house style" of the wiki).
> 
>   One use case Stephen didn't mention is the case where you decide
>   to make some sort of global change to the project. (I don't know if it's
>   true of the Alassian wiki, but) In a pure WYSIWIG system, you'll get to
>   make that change individually to every page in the project and the
>   odds of you making the exact same change to every page are
>   vanishingly small. In a markup-based system, though, such a change
>   is trivially easy.
> 
>   I spend a lot of my life wrestling with several very large Microsoft Visio
>   documents and I would trade away the WYSIWIG editor for a markup-
>   based editor in a heartbeat.
> 
>   I've used quite a few Wiki systems (albeit, not the Alassian one) but
>   in my experience, so far, the Wikimedia system is the best.
> 
> > On 12/7/2011 9:26 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > > The worst thing about Confluence is that it can only be edited in rich
> > > text mode. There is no markup behind that which you can switch to in
> > > order to edit pages.

I don't want to be dragged into Wiki wars here, but I essentially agree with 
Stephen and Atlan: A WYSIWYG-_only_ interface is a clear show stopper. 

Andre'