Tools are things we use as authors. Authoring is the act of using tools to make something. When the thing is made we can discard the tool.
However wiki is political. This means that our core aim is to avoid a power distinction between the consumers of content (readers), and the makers of the content (writers). Federated wiki extends this idea to code.
Throwing away the tool in this content is not as harmless as it may be in other contexts. We seek to provide access to the tools that creat the wiki-content at all times, through the concept of provenance, and through making the act of creating and modyfing the open-source tools we use as easy to participate in as the act of writing.
To avoid visual clutter we seek to hide our tools from the reader in wiki, without removing their ability to author, refactor and edit the content. This leads us to think of the following types of tooling for wiki:
# Proposal
We should create a clear, and yet navigable distinction, between refactoring tools, and the other forms of tooling.
# See also - Clicks and Drops - Clicks are not Drops - Visual Clutter - Tools - Authoring - About Home - Wiki is political
# Links to refactor