Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-5275700-20131014191604/@comment-5275700-20131015220839

FishTank wrote: I posted these comments on the blog entry, before I saw this thread.


 * This seems very awkward with adding Templates. They're available under Transclusion, which I think most casual editors won't catch. In addition, Visual mode would at least give hints about what the parameters were. There's no such guidance here.
 * I also miss the ability to add wikitext inline. It is so natural to want to add link brackets to an article name that I know, and that operation now takes three extra steps. Even in Visual mode, that roundtrip addition was "fluid" (ironic).

Thanks for the comments! In general, and as you already acknowledged, it's important to note that this is the first stage of the Beta release and there's lots more coming. Regarding templates, we'll be doing further work on the template editor, it's just basic support at the moment. And we'll be adding in wikitext support as well.

We are addressing (or plan to address) some of the issues reported in the past, around issues caused by the current RTE. We are confident that this tool can be both a helpful starting point for future wikitext users and an effective way to contribute in and of itself. In other words, it can be the "middle ground solution" that you mention in your further notes. I look forward to hearing what you think as things proceed!