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::To edit a box, one MUST go to Wikitext. As soon as someone needs to do that, I believe we would loose the average user. No guideline exists on coloring, I would like we would want to choose from certain color palettes instead of colors that do not really match or putting up a rainbow. Maybe we should have a discussion on this. [[User:Thomas Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 00:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC) | ::To edit a box, one MUST go to Wikitext. As soon as someone needs to do that, I believe we would loose the average user. No guideline exists on coloring, I would like we would want to choose from certain color palettes instead of colors that do not really match or putting up a rainbow. Maybe we should have a discussion on this. [[User:Thomas Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 00:34, 12 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
==== What is the compelling reason for forcing wikitext editing? ==== | ==== What is the compelling reason for forcing wikitext editing? ==== | ||
Is there a compelling reason why this page has been rendered more complicated to edit than a normal page? The reason I ask is that I just tried to edit this page, and it was ''not'' a good experience. I strongly dislike being forced to go into wikitext view to edit content because I am unable to discern code from content quickly. Basically, when I'm forced to go into wikitext view to edit, it wastes a lot of my time because I am forced to slog through a bunch of code that I'm not interested in editing to get to the content that I actually want to edit. I honestly think there are two kinds of people -- those who don't mind operating in a screen full of code and those to whom a screen full of code is distracting to the point of agony. I am the latter type. I think there are more people like me than there are of the type who don't mind slogging through code. If most people liked to operate in code-clouded screens, MS Word wouldn't have blown away WordPerfect by offering the first PC-based WYSIWYG word processor, and Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to follow Apple into the world of the Graphical User Interface. I feel the same way about this page's overcomplication of editing that I felt about [[Edit and Contribute|Edit and Contribute]] when it, too, forced users to go into code view to edit it. What am I failing to understand? Why is it necessary to render this page harder to edit? Why is it necessary to force users to enter wikitext mode to edit? [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC) | Is there a compelling reason why this page has been rendered more complicated to edit than a normal page? The reason I ask is that I just tried to edit this page, and it was ''not'' a good experience. I strongly dislike being forced to go into wikitext view to edit content because I am unable to discern code from content quickly. Basically, when I'm forced to go into wikitext view to edit, it wastes a lot of my time because I am forced to slog through a bunch of code that I'm not interested in editing to get to the content that I actually want to edit. I honestly think there are two kinds of people -- those who don't mind operating in a screen full of code and those to whom a screen full of code is distracting to the point of agony. I am the latter type. I think there are more people like me than there are of the type who don't mind slogging through code. If most people liked to operate in code-clouded screens, MS Word wouldn't have blown away WordPerfect by offering the first PC-based WYSIWYG word processor, and Microsoft wouldn't have bothered to follow Apple into the world of the Graphical User Interface. I feel the same way about this page's overcomplication of editing that I felt about [[Help:Edit and Contribute|Edit and Contribute]] when it, too, forced users to go into code view to edit it. What am I failing to understand? Why is it necessary to render this page harder to edit? Why is it necessary to force users to enter wikitext mode to edit? [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] 00:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC) | ||
==== The many colors are confusing to those seeking meaning ==== | ==== The many colors are confusing to those seeking meaning ==== | ||