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Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-then-where-will-we-look-up-sopa dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jimbo Wales has suggested that English Wikipedia restrict its services for a period to protest against the anti-piracy SOPA bill in the United States. This follows a similar action by the Italian Wikipedia last month." Reader fiannaFailMan points out another bit of Wikipedia news: they've taken the wraps off a prototype for a new visual editor. A sandbox is available to try out. The Wikimedia Foundation hopes easier, more intuitive editing will shore up waning contributor numbers.

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  1. Re:Visual editor? About damned time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the fuck kind of citation are you looking for, Martin Espinoza? Some bullshit academic paper describing the horrid markup generated by visual editors?

    OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES, MAN! Use such a visual editor for yourself. It doesn't even matter which one! The resulting markup will only be acceptable to fools who don't give a damn about even the most basic level of quality. These are the kind of people who should be punted from publishing content on the web. If you can't put forth the small amount of care necessary to create proper markup, then you clearly don't have the care necessary to put together thoughtful and correct written works.

    Well, it seems you already knew this, given your "though many editors seem to get it wrong anyway." statement. So here's your citation: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2573284&cid=38367960