I've also been using the FCKeditor and consider it much better than straight wikitext, but have found what appear to be some bugs, the results of which you can fix by dropping down into the wikitext editor FCKeditor provides. For example, if you place your cursor in the middle of a word without selecting any text, then hit the Bold or Italics button many times,. single quotes are produced as though it is trying to put them around empty space. Also, the template editor is useless since it produces a single line of wikitext for you to edit. But this is minor considering the benefits of the other tools that work well, such as the table editor. Being able to make a table in seconds in Mediawiki, and easily modify it later, is SO much nicer than the ugly wikitext method of pipes, dashes and exclaimation points. Wikitext reminds me of the days I programmed in Postscript, a language used by laser printers to paint text and pictures on paper. No one I know is using that language on a regular basis anymore. I mean, Wikitext is so last century :*) -Jim -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Cooch [mailto:Kathleen.Cooch@dominos.com] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:44 AM To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] searching for WYSIWYG-wikitext Editors Hi Simon I have tried both tinymce editor and fckeditor on my wiki. although the tiny mce offers more functionality it caused more headaches as well. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TinyMCE_MW with fck you can easily use wiki text as well as provide your user with a basic wysiwyg http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/FCKeditor_integration_guide regards kate Hi MediaWiki Admins I am searching for an WYSIWYG Editor with wikitext support. Ideal would be cross-platform and open source. Any recommendations? cheers Simon _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Simon wrote: Hey Simon, The OpenOffice.org Writer can export wiki text and works on any OS as far as I know. If you want to pull an existing page down to edit I haven't found a way to do that though. Also, it isn't sure what to do with custom wiki tags. Good luck. -Courtney