I'm not actually sure that it makes it easier though, I suppose that large list of buttons looks more like MS Word which most people are used to, to me I found it a bit daunting.. I've just started using <a href="http://www.wikispaces.com/">
http://www.wikispaces.com/</a> for organising a co-op that I'm in, this has a simple but good WYSIWYG editor in it and editing is much nicer than wikimedia, mainly cause you don't have to keep re-saving all the time.
<br><br>Perhaps we could try the extension out on new users and see what they think, or old users who have had trouble editing...<br>cheers,<br>John<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Sri Kosuri</b> <<a href="mailto:skosuri@mit.edu">skosuri@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The following page describes a browser plugin for Firefox that makes wikicode more WYSIWYG.
<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd</a><br><br>It's a super simple installation process and probably would be pretty decent for beginners. Installation instructions can be found here:
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd#Complete_version" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd#Complete_version</a><br>
<br>I wonder if we could make this a default option for new users. It definitely makes it easier for novices to edit.
<br><span class="sg"><br>Sri<br>
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