Павел Петроченко wrote:
Hi guys,
At the moment we are discussing an opportunity to create full scale
true WYSIWYG client for media wiki. To the moment we have a technology
which should allow us to implement with a good quality and quite fast.
Unfortunately we are not sure
if there is a real need/interest for having such kind of client at the
media wiki world, as well as what are actual needs of media wiki
users. So we decided to write to this list. Any feedback/suggestion
will be very helpful.
P.S. Screen cast demonstrating our experimental client for Trac wiki
http://www.screencast.com/t/MDkzYzM4
Regards,
Pavel
Yes, of course we are interested on it.
Specifically, the ideal WISIWYG MediaWiki editor would allow easy
WISIWYG editing to newbies, while still allowing to use the full
wikisyntax to power users, without inserting crappy markup when using
it, or reordering everything to its liking when WISIWYG was used to do a
little change.
From the screencast, it seems your technology is based
in a local
application instead of web. That's is a little inconvenience for the
users, but an acceptable one IMHO. You could plug your app as an
external editor, see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
The problem that makes this really hard is that MediaWiki syntax is not
nice. So I'm a bit skeptical about that fast quality editor. You can
find in the list archives many discussions about it, and also in wikitext-l.
Things like providing a ribbon is a completely esthetical choice, it
can't really help on the result of its editing. Maybe your backend is
powerful enough to handle this without problems. Please, show me wrong :)