Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4260948-20140103005819/@comment-16101931-20140109000418

Same here. I've had visual-mode disabled in my preferences since my second week of editing on Wikia (when I realized I could disable it). I had no prior wiki background either, I just took a few extra minutes to learn the wiki-text syntax. I learned most of it in about one day, though wiki-tables were a bit confusing to me for a while. All it took was looking at the source then hitting preview and seeing what effect the markup had, and when I really couldn't understand something (such as table formatting) I just googled it and found a plethora of highly detailed and easy to understand explanations.