On 31 May 2010 22:53, William Le Ferrand william@corefarm.com wrote:

I've started to develop a simple wysiwyg editor that could be useful to wikipedia. Basically the editor gets the wiki code from wikipedai and builds the html on client side. Then you can edit the html code as you can imagine and when you are done another script converts the html back to wiki code. There is a simple demo here : http://www.corefarm.com:8080/wysiwyg?article=Open_innovation . You can try other pages from http://www.corefarm.com:8080/ (type the article name). You comments are welcomed!

What you're working on is a *hard* problem a lot of people have attempted, with varying success. There's been some discussion of this of late on mediawiki-l.

The default editor on new wikia.com wikis is WYSIWYG-only. This works tolerably well (a bit buggy, but actively worked on).

The common WYSIWYG solution for MediaWiki is FCKeditor, which works *almost* pretty well but: (a) falls down badly when you try to mix WYSIWYG editing with wikitext editing and chews up the wikitext (b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every possible emergent side-effect for editor's use (c) is not actually being worked on at the moment. (Though one mediawiki-l contributor says he's been using it to good effect on his work intranet and is seeking permission to release back his changes under GPL.)

http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Official%29

FCK+MediaWiki discussion recently:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2010-May/thread.html#33896 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2010-May/thread.html#34061

You may care to have a look at FCKeditor+MediaWiki and see if you've just reinvented the wheel and can help get that up to scratch. Or, alternately, if your approach is different enough and better enough to pursue nevertheless ;-)

- d.