Emufarmers Sangly wrote: 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.

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

On 10/12/2007, Emufarmers Sangly <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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.

On 10/12/2007, Kimon Andreou <mediawiki-l(a)andreou.org> wrote: 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.