I completely agree with you that if you need the full features of Word a wiki WYSIWYG editor will not likely match those of Word, at least those editors available today. But most people do not use all of those features. Most are simply text with attributes like bold, italics, etc. You must upload an image first of course, we must remember this is first and foremost a wiki, but it is easy to take that image and insert it using the FCKeditor. But if you want to see the real power of a wysiwyg editor for mediawiki, create a table in wikitext then go to the FCKeditor sandbox and create the same table. For a 10 row by 6 column table the first will take you about 10 minutes, the later will take you 10 seconds.
-Jim
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sylvain Machefert Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:13 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word
I haven't play a lot with WYSIWYG editors, but I doubt it can do all things people like to do on word. In my neighboor, at work, I have plenty of people using word/excel every day. - can you insert image with copy/paste without uploading them ? - can you draw some arrows, frames... ? - can you insert a table which is an Excel file ? (in Word you can insert an Excel sheet, that's buggy, heavy file... but they all do that) - table not from excel : easy to resize, insert/delete lines, change background color or style for one line/one column... is it possible in WYSIWYG ? - they like the "tab" key to indent the first line of each paragraph, in WYSIWYG does it indent text? or go to next field as in all normal html forms ? - they heavily uses styles for titles, lists (like <ol>,<ul>...) but with WYSIWYG, you'll never have problem with normal.dot !! yeah! I think it's better to use a software which has features you need. My 2 cents.