On 31 May 2010 23:50, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
The default editor on new wikia.com wikis is WYSIWYG-only. This works tolerably well (a bit buggy, but actively worked on).
It's not WYSIWYG only. You can switch between that and regular wikitext whilst you're on the edit page using the "source" button, or you can select which you want to use in your preferences. A new version was released a couple of weeks ago, so many of the older bugs are now resolved. There are some new ones of course, but it's improving all the time. :)
:-D
How installable and workable is this on, say, any random work intranet with a fairly generic MW 1.16 installation? I may give it a go at work ...
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On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
How installable and workable is this on, say, any random work intranet with a fairly generic MW 1.16 installation? I may give it a go at work
As far as I know, the problem right now is that Wikia's rich text editor requires core changes, rather than simply being an extension you can install. The code is all available at https://svn.wikia-code.com/ but it still needs to be packaged up to make it easier for third-party use.
... and the problem with the wikitext being mangled is that diffs show a 100% text change for any alteration
Luckily this is now a rare bug, and not the norm. Work is ongoing to resolve the remaining causes of this. The aim is for diffs to work in exactly the same way as they do with wikitext-only.
Angela
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