The problem is not as bad as it was in 2008, when Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega found a loss of 49, 000 editors in the first three months of the year alone, but it has caused enough concern for Wikipedia to introduce a WYSIWYG text editor in hopes of making editing more appealing to users.

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When I started developing websites way back in 1995 there really were not a lot of choices other than a text editor and some good old fashion trial and error.

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So he presented himself in the original edition as the editor, claiming that an anonymous couple had handed him the text, which he had merely tweaked and contextualised.

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Clarke, who works as a poet, playwright, editor, creative writing tutor and translator is well known in schools across the UK as a set-text poet for GCSE and A-level English.

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