On 8/9/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
No but I'm suggesting it might be an obstacle to having development of it prioritised.
It is very much prioritized by both Wikia and SocialText, and Jimmy mentioned this in his Wikimania keynote. You won't get much more priority than two multi-million-dollar companies throwing their weight behind it, and a Foundation-level endorsement of the effort.
By the way, I'm not necessarily talking about "WYSIWYG in MediaWiki" either. It's more about WYSIWYG for Wikimedia projects.
One depends on a stable and non-disruptive implementation of the other.
If integrating an editor into the current environment is so difficult maybe there needs to be a new approach, such as developing new software/syntax with some type of WYSIWYG editor built in from the start.
I don't think it would help all that much -- a declarative explanation of what the parser has to do in particular corner cases might be sufficient to ease some of the pain. However, some of MediaWiki's features, such as parametrized templates, are simply complex no matter what syntax you use to describe them; your WYSIWYG editor will have to support them somehow.
Erik