Author: jp07

Description:
I'm in the midst of editing a document, and I feel like this process would be much easier if Wiki formatting could be made invisible while editing. It is very difficult to find my place on the page when I transition from the article to the editing screen, and all of the punctuation in the Wiki formatting kind of causes some headaches. I think people would be more patient editors and more successful editors (i.e. they would overlook fewer problems) if Wiki formatting could be made invisible during the editing process.

I fully understand the formatting, but when I'm looking exclusively for logical/grammatical/syntactical/punctuation problems, the formatting really poses an unnecessary obstacle.

This would also make editing much more approachable for new Wikipedians, who are not yet familiar with the formatting. I think best case scenario would be to default to plain-text editing with a checkbox to turn on Wiki formatting. Is this practical?

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement