Thread:BertH/@comment-156134-20121003010531/@comment-156134-20121004202944

BertH wrote: Hi Hunterj. I reviewed your submitted examples, and it seems like the best solution is to better educate new users on best practices before they start editing. This is more ideal when trying to expand communities, as opposed to putting up more barriers (and source-only is indeed a barrier for new users). Wikia is your partner in that effort, and we'd be happy to help out more with suggestions and even assistance. Let me know if you'd like to talk more about that. We're also always working on improvements to the visual editor itself, to address concerns like yours.

But generally we no longer disable the visual editor for any wikis, since that does typically prevent community growth. We are a welcoming and supportive community with several active users and a good support system - I have no issue with showing best practices to new users but would rather do so with source code. I have to agree with several users above who have commented; we have decided as a community that we would like this feature removed. We also want our wiki to grow but do not see this as an obstacle that is too large to overcome - to be frank if a user is not willing to try to learn wikicode (and we are very patient) then I don't think they will be particularly dedicated to editing our wiki, as it is a relatively minor obstacle to climb with the support available.

Thank you for your response, but we would still like this feature removed and we're irritated that we (as a community) aren't being listened to.

Thanks.