Steve Bennett wrote:
Don't tell me that when my table has exploded due
to an extraneous |
somewhere...
?? so? It's still your decision that the table is exploded.
If a user's error makes half the article disappear
or turn bold or
something, they're going to want to know about. Let's not patronise here.
It's not patronizing to use the wiki-wiki method, it's *human*. I realise
that Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia projects have long since moved to a
hybrid approach using some degree of machine intervention, but on the whole
wiki-wiki works because of editorial vigilance, not machine error
detection.
We don't know for a given editor whether seeing a warning or seeing a page
blow-out is going to be more scary. Therefore it should be a setting. I
think the default should be not to show the error, or perhaps to show a
little widget that links to the warnings from text like "Why is this page
messed up?".
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