On 11/16/07, Mark <mark(a)geekhive.net> wrote:
My understanding of the wiki wiki idea is that we're trying to lower
barriers to entry as far as possible, and capture every single good-faith
contribution regardless of how "wrong" it might be. The "wantedness"
or
"unwantedness" of an edit is for fellow editors to decide, not the parser.
Don't tell me that when my table has exploded due to an extraneous |
somewhere...
If a user's "error" is to put an extra space where it technically
doesn't
matter, of course we wouldn't bug them about it.
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.
Steve