Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1915726-20130311070356/@comment-1694864-20130311235521

Archonell wrote: Perhaps extending the problem to having users 'learn' HTML was too far, but surely it's also sometimes too complicated and perhaps discouraging to rich-text-users? I have problems using Source Mode because I simply can't make sense of Wiki code, and am more fond of using Rich Mode, so as my personal opinion, I'd be deterred from making edits because of a lack of understanding of how Wiki-code works and in caution of making a mistake and screwing up the code.

I highly recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup. Furthermore, make use of the summary field: You can add a message like "not too familiar with wikitext, formatting may need cleaning up".

As for "making a mistake", that's what page history and the ability for anyone to edit is for. You can also play around in the Project:Sandbox.