[Wikipedia-l] The New Yorker on Wikipedia

Tue Jul 25 03:51:31 UTC 2006

Hi!
>One
> problem is that it would probably take a lot of work.
Yes... a whole load of it, and an endless debug period before shipping into
production environment. Yet, it could be done by at least paying some of the
funcionalities that are needed.

The main problem here is usability. While seasoned editors may only wish to
get better and more powerful tools, what we don't really need is an editing
window that will scare newcomers. A first answer could be an "edit number
sensitive" mechanism, that would propose the wider version only after a
particular user has gone (say) over 500 edits. Newcomers might have a link
suggesting the existence of such an advanced edit tool, and would need to
activate it from their user prefs if they wish to have it immediately.

Bèrto