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:
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