2009/9/15 Dmitriy Sintsov <questpc(a)rambler.ru>ru>:
Hi!
I've read that usability is important for MediaWiki. Why don't integrate
wikitext syntax highlighting then?
We're planning to do exactly that in our
third release (Citron). Right
now, we're working on bugfixing and deploying our second release
(Babaco).
That will greatly improve editing of
the pages. There is Extension:WikEd which has most of the work
implemented already.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WikEd_screenshot.png Yeah, we knew about wikEd,
and we'll definitely be looking at it.
I know that it should be possible to install the
extension separately.
But I remember that important extensions are sometimes integrated into
MediaWiki.
There's also FCKeditor, but it cannot perform diffs, and visual editing
is not always desirable (non-technical users like it, but I personally
prefer to edit wikitext).
There's still quite a few issues with FCKeditor, and as far as I know
it's been decided that the usability project is not gonna cover
WYSIWYG; I'm not entirely sure of the official stance here, you'd have
to ask Naoko.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)