Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1915726-20130311070356/@comment-1915726-20130311142622

Archonell wrote: Won't this drive away potential users from the Wiki? A large portion of our editors are people who (presumably) have very little knowledge with HTML coding, and thus would find it hard to edit pages correctly. If it's meant to, perhaps, regulate coding throughout pages, it's inevitable that someone's going to come around and try to do his part in keeping the Wiki up-to-date, only to screw the coding up directly because of the disabling of WYSIWYG.

I'm not against this and gave my Kudos to the 'Agree' section, but there a few problems with that move (revolving mostly around the dependance on Rich Editing Mode by new users) that would perhaps pose more of a problem than just some annoying-to-maintain coding.

There is a learning curve of the Wiki code, but it's not hard at all, far from any other "computer language". Given the popularity of Wikipedia and its lack of similar WYSIWYG gadget, it's not irrational to require our editors (including the anons) to learn some basic Wiki code if they want to contribute to LoL Wiki. The comfort of the Visual Mode does not cover its shortcoming at all as explained in the Tardis forum thread. Also Wikia staff's attitude toward this issue is so passive, no sign of improvement. Chance is the visual mode was directly implemented from a third party java script so they have little ability to modify it.