Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1915726-20130311070356/@comment-1915726-20130312152209

Ozuar wrote: As a wiki, don't we pride ourselves on the fact that anyone, with or without an account and with or without experience in wiki markup can come onto the site and edit it, providing their knowledge to the community, without any effort? Is that not the purpose fo our wiki?

Visual mode allows people without experience, anons specifically, to make the edits that we pride ourselves on. Therefore, is visual mode not vital to the wiki's founding principles?

My answer still stays at a firm "Disable visual mode", but I would just like to propose the question: How would we preserve this core value without visual mode providing an equal opportunity to all users?

Wikia or Wikipedia, if the said reader want something in the article to be changed but they can't for whatever reason (article protected or they aren't familiar with wiki markup), they could make request in talk page or comment section. Will shutting down visual mode affect, or even scare off some of our contributors? Definitely. But there're still other ways for those who embrace visual mode to remain active.