Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-970089-20170920042149

Vortexdome wrote:

Kirkburn wrote: I would like to stress once more that this is an experiment - we absolutely recognise the value of wikitext and its many features and extensions, but we would like to test whether there are more ways of making user-contributed knowledge-bases that may offer significant advantages. It may be that this particular style is not an approach that works - but it's worth trying out. The fact we're testing it does not guarantee that it'll be rolled out widely - it may only ever be appropriate for a particular kind of community, for example (or even none at all).

I would note that the experimental editor actually includes it's own kind of querying markup that lets you construct tables of data, for example - it's more than just basic formatting abilities. (However, that may not be super-clear in the current version.) Just leave things the way they are, and you staff members better make damn sure what the community needs before shoving un-needed features down our throats. I'm just pissed over featured videos, so I hope Lucy doesn't turn out to be one of wikia's greatest failures. To be fair, I don't think Kirkburn has anything to do with the video thing... But it does speak to how that issue has harmed the trust that exists between community and wikia. What is destroyed is hard to rebuild.