[Webteam] Wiki vs. rich text editing (was Re: Choosing the platform for website)

[Igor Stasenko]

Why just not support both ways and put point in this discussion? :)

2008/7/18 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Speaking as proposer: let me start answering you part by part, because
> discussion on every your point separately is important.
>
>>>From what I have seen of Scribo, it is not intended for people
>> who have ever used a wiki before, but for business people who
>> live and breathe word, and cannot imagine a markup language. I
>> don't like it's rich text editor, and much prefer a simple wiki
>> markup system, regardless of syntax.
>
> This dilemma I actually had by myself when starting developing Scribo
> precedesor 5 years ago. We started with Wiki markup (which is still possible
> in Scribo) but end users just don't like it. Yes, those end users are
> secretaries etc, definitively not programmers.
>
> But let we ask ourself about our user base. Who will be authors of content
> of squeak.org in the future? As you know the plan is to broaden author base
> so that  all subcommunities will maintain its part of website by their own.
>
> When you broaden author base you can soon expect unfamiliarity with Wiki
> markup syntax, not to mention that anyone really like to know many different
> syntaxes for many different Wikis (Wikipedia, SmallWiki, WikiWorks etc.).
>
> On the other side anyone is immediately familiar with those buttons in rich
> text editor. Conclusion is therefore obvious: if we want to succeed with
> broadening author base, we need to make more familiar content editing. And
> rich text editor is more familiar, there is not doubt on that.
>
> Best regards
> Janko
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