Hi Everybody,
I have setup the most recent version of mediawiki on my own single server for a small group project (1,600 people). After setting up Apache, MySQL, and mediawiki, I was crestfallen. There seems to be absolutely no way to change the page editor into a WYSIWYG editor. Most of the people invovled in this project only have enough patience (myself included) to edit and build through a GUI that doesn't require manual coding of the material.
Does anyone know of a more user-friendly wiki, or of a way to accomplish this with mediawiki?
Thank you in advance!
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On Dec 10, 2007 2:49 PM, Derek B chintue@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I have setup the most recent version of mediawiki on my own single server for a small group project (1,600 people). After setting up Apache, MySQL, and mediawiki, I was crestfallen. There seems to be absolutely no way to change the page editor into a WYSIWYG editor. Most of the people invovled in this project only have enough patience (myself included) to edit and build through a GUI that doesn't require manual coding of the material.
Does anyone know of a more user-friendly wiki, or of a way to accomplish this with mediawiki?
Thank you in advance!
There are various WYSIWYG extensions and hacks on MediaWiki.org < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor%3E. You'll probably want to start with the FCK or Wikiwyg extensions.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
There are various WYSIWYG extensions and hacks on MediaWiki.org < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor%3E. You'll probably want to start with the FCK or Wikiwyg extensions.
I don't know if this would help anyone else but speaking for myself, I'd be more interested in an external client side program that can provide a WYSIWYG interface for users to create and edit pages, effectively offline, to be uploaded into a MediaWiki based site. Has anyone else thought about such a thing? Are there programs out there like that? I looked a few months ago and didn't see anything like this.
You can use the latest version of OpenOffice and export your documents using the MediaWiki filter. The resulting text file can be copied & pasted into the wiki.
Kimon
On 12/10/07, P. Hightower sgriobhadair@gmail.com wrote:
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
There are various WYSIWYG extensions and hacks on MediaWiki.org < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor%3E. You'll probably want to start with the FCK or Wikiwyg extensions.
I don't know if this would help anyone else but speaking for myself, I'd be more interested in an external client side program that can provide a WYSIWYG interface for users to create and edit pages, effectively offline, to be uploaded into a MediaWiki based site. Has anyone else thought about such a thing? Are there programs out there like that? I looked a few months ago and didn't see anything like this.
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We've been running mediawiki 1.5.5 for a significant period of time (more than a year), on a RHEL 3 box with Mysql 4 on it.
Recently we upgraded the box (well, really rebuilt the box) to RHEL5, which has mysql5 on it.
Now we're seeing a sporadic error when editing entries in mediawiki:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "SearchMySQL4::update". MySQL returned error "145: Table './wikidb/searchindex' is marked as crashed and should be repaired (localhost)".
The entry updates, and I can go in and run a table repair in mysql, that works just fine, however, it's a bit annoying.
I assume (maybe incorrectly) that the media wiki we are running is expecting mysql4, and we're now running mysql 5 and this is the problem.
Would upgrading to 1.11.0 resolve the issue? Or perhaps there's something else going on.
Thanks for your time,
Scott
'./wikidb/searchindex' is marked as crashed and should be repaired
I experienced this same behaviour when upgrading from MySQL 3-4 and from MediaWiki 1.6->1.11. I think I've fixed it (hopefully permanently) by dumping the table, then dropping it, then re-creating it again. I found that repairing the table worked, but the error would re-occur. Hope this works for you.
Peter
On 10/12/2007, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
There are various WYSIWYG extensions and hacks on MediaWiki.org < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor%3E. You'll probably want to start with the FCK or Wikiwyg extensions.
By the way: those who want an accurate two-way WYSIWYG editor for Mediawiki are invited to help with the effort to write a Mediawiki grammar:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/ANTLR http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
Steve Bennett is leading the ANTLR effort (which is looking very promising), but any help is *most* welcomed.
This won't lead to a WYSIWYG editor immediately, but it will help write a better parser with behaviour defined other than in the code itself, and therefore (a) reimplementable (b) with wikitext much more feasibly writable by external tools such as WYSIWYG editors.
- d.
Thanks David I'll look at it when I get home as this is something the MediaWiki sorely needs to become the standard for corporate use
Kimon
On 12/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/2007, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
There are various WYSIWYG extensions and hacks on MediaWiki.org < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor%3E. You'll probably want to start with the FCK or Wikiwyg extensions.
By the way: those who want an accurate two-way WYSIWYG editor for Mediawiki are invited to help with the effort to write a Mediawiki grammar:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/ANTLR http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-lSteve Bennett is leading the ANTLR effort (which is looking very promising), but any help is *most* welcomed.
This won't lead to a WYSIWYG editor immediately, but it will help write a better parser with behaviour defined other than in the code itself, and therefore (a) reimplementable (b) with wikitext much more feasibly writable by external tools such as WYSIWYG editors.
- d.
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On 10/12/2007, Kimon Andreou mediawiki-l@andreou.org wrote:
Thanks David I'll look at it when I get home as this is something the MediaWiki sorely needs to become the standard for corporate use
Tell me about it ... I'm getting demands for WYSIWYG editing and FCK is getting there but isn't prime time yet.
(plus points of Mediawiki: it's really easy to set up and impresses people quickly! minus points: all the clunky bits.)
- d.
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