David Gerard wrote:
On 19 May 2010 15:50, Robert Cummings robert@interjinn.com wrote:
I have to disagree with you given my experience. In one government department where MediaWiki was installed we saw the active user base spike from about 1000 users to about 8000 users within a month of having enabled FCKeditor. FCKeditor definitely has it's warts, but it very closely matches the experience non-technical people have gotten used to while using Word or WordPerfect. Leveraging skills people already have cuts down on training costs and allows them to be productive almost immediately.
Our main problem is how to make things work for people who want WYSIWYG and people who want wikitext. I thought this was what CK in MW was working on ...
Should the page for the relevant extension be marked "no longer being worked on" or "your bugs are going into a void"?
In my particular case I get to fix the bugs and enhance both MediaWiki and FCKeditor :) Unfortunately, at this time I am unable to pass fixes back to the community due to contracting issues and how it relates to GPL. This is being addressed and hopefully in the near future updates can be contributed back as one would expect when using open-source.
As an example, I think every version of FCKeditor I've seen so far used with MediaWiki has broken search/replace. This is fixed for us :)
Cheers, Rob.