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Wikipedia visual editor
- Hario 13y agoI noticed this the other day. It's pretty exciting!
- ghostdiver 13y agoEditor is not sandboxed in cross domain iframe environment. Homakov go!
- quarterto 13y agoHomakov used XSRF! It's super effective!
- Hario 13y agoI don't understand. Can you link me to a thing that will teach me to understand, please?
- stfu 13y agoUpvoted you because I am in the same boat. But some of the best hn comments are (imho) those that require some searching around before understanding them. At least I just did and got a step closer towards enlightenment :)
- nitrogen 13y agoUse the search box at the bottom of the page on HN, or hit hnsearch.com, search for "Homakov" (click the radio button to limit to stories), and if that's not enough, add in key words from the parent post (iframe, domain, cross-domain, sandbox, etc.).
- mistercow 13y agoIt's a very good start. The main things that are still really lacking I think are "References" and "Transclusions". Even the word "transclusions" needs to be expelled from the interface. Nobody knows what that means, guys. Just call it "templates".
- teeja 13y agoIt is a very good start, and it's good that it's a clearly labelled 'beta' option. It -might- eventually make doing cites easier (especially ones that involve minor changes in existing cites), but already anyone who comes along and sees something wrong can fix typos, clumsy phrases, even repair some vandalism. It enables tens of thousands of reader eyes to do that. Major plus.
- mistercow 13y agoYeah, and even for experienced editors, it's an easier tool to use for typo and grammar correction, since you can see the error in the same visual context as you first spotted it.
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- pervycreeper 13y agoI suspect that removing having the ability to learn Wikipedia's markup language as a filter for contributors will decrease the average quality of edits. If you're incapable of learning simple patterns or closing parentheses, maybe the quality of your thinking and judgement is not that high. If so, I don't really want to read your ideas or opinions.
- anigbrowl 13y agoAnd I suspect you're wrong. I didn't find Wikipedia's markup language difficult, but I did find it needlessly cumbersome, plus it makes proofreading more difficult. Do you have any evidence for judging the quality of authorship by the standards of typesetters?
- pervycreeper 13y agoJust compare the average Tumblr blog to, say one produced with Jekyll, document produced with Latex vs. Word, etc. Relatedly, making things too "easy to use" often obscures what's actually happening underneath and makes them harder to understand for certain classes of user (i.e. those that want to understand what they're actually doing).
- anigbrowl 13y agoI guess that's a no, then.
- malandrew 13y agoJust create a reputation system for edits. For every edit, ask it to be given a type (typo, additional info, factual correction, etc) and a quality score. Wight the value of a rating using the rating of ther rater. People who make good contributions will rise to the top. Those who make poor contributions will fall to the bottom There are better solutions than making something needlessly complex.
- anigbrowl 13y ago