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Comment How will VisualEditor better your word processor? (Score 1) 161

by azadnama on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:11PM (#44127259) Attached to: Interview: Ask Jimmy Wales What You Will

You are a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the highest-priority projects for the Wikimedia Foundation is the VisualEditor. I wanted to ask something a bit surprising about it. It is essentially a word processor. It's web-based and it's targeted at a particular task, but it's still a word processor. So I want to ask: What is your favorite word processor? It can be one from the past - I actually met a lot of people whose favorite word processor was discontinued. What was your favorite word processor? And how can Wikipedia's new VisualEditor be better than your favorite processor? Thank you.

Submission + - How can Wikipedia's upcoming Visual Editor be better than other word processors? (mediawiki.org)

Submitted by azadnama on Saturday November 17, 2012 @02:06PM

azadnama writes: Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is aware of the fact the MediaWiki formatting syntax is a major obstacle for people's participation in writing on the site. To address this problem, the Foundation is developing VisualEditor—a web-based WYSIWYG interface for editing articles. It's supposed to be similar to a word processor, like LibreOffice, Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, and others. And this is the time to ask: What did your word processor get wrong and how can Wikipedia's VisualEditor get it right?

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