Wikipedia, too complicated for the masses

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8 pointsiwwr3 comments

Maybe it is ok for editing Wikipedia to be a little more complicated than leaving a comment on YouTube.

I don't think so. There are people which are way more visual than programmers.

I myself have refrained from contributing to Wikipedia because I didn't want to learn the syntax. Not wanting to break things, I just submitted some fixes here and there in the body of some articles.

I don't think it's the markup. I think it's the folks that revert any and all changes, the deletionists, and the bureaucracy in general.

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