On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:03:36 -0500, Evan Prodromou evan@bad.dynu.ca wrote:
On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 12:43 -0700, Sterling D. Allan wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there is already in existence an editor program that enables one to edit mediawiki pages in a "what you see is what you get" mode (editing for dummies)?
This is a subject near and dear to my heart. There's a good discussion on meta.wikimedia.org:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
It might also be worth looking at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools for some of the things people *have* already coded. From memory, the only thing that comes anywhere close is the Eclipse plugin [as linked by Tony] - it's not wysiwyg, but I believe it does "understand" wikitext natively, and render it live, as well as interfacing with the server, so it's possibly only that one step away (I haven't actually used it by the way, just read about it).