Simon,

I just wanted to pass on a thought about OpenOffice, with regard to Mac users...

OpenOffice works quite well on Mac. Unfortunately, it runs in the X11 windowing environment. This environment is unknown to many if not nearly all Mac users (I don't know any non-scientists that use it on the Mac). Thankfully, its cousin, Neooffice, is a Mac-native suite. Neooffice is extremely similar to OpenOffice, being explicitly based on OpenOffice (its developers are former OpenOffice.org developers who went independent to write a Mac-GUI based version of the software on their "spare time"). In general, Neooffice has almost identical functionally to OpenOffice.org though I cannot speak to whether or not it is able to export wikitext as I have never attempted to use Neooffice in this way.

You can direct Mac users to Neooffice's mediawiki-based site:

http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page

Cheers,

Rob

Simon wrote:

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Are there also Windows, Mac, Linux Desktop Editors? I mean offline editing and then upload the wikitext to MediaWiki?

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