My brother owns
http://EditMe.com - a hosted wiki company. He has a WYSIWIG
editor - but his wiki data is HTML based. Even so - it's a pain, it's all
JS, browser compatibility, etc., etc.
A really nice free wiki launched recently that has WYSIWIG and very cool
data/forms stuff that makes building and reporting on mini-dbs very
simple... worth checking out if you're not sticking with mediawiki.
http://jot.com/
Most of these sites use some version of
http://www.htmlarea.com/ - which is
pretty good but definitely not ready for shrink wrapping yet.... which is
mostly browser differences (making something like this next to impossible to
get perfect). I've worked with their code a lot, it's pretty good but, until
browsers come up with a standard I doubt it'll ever be 100% solid.
-ben <- sticking with MediaWiki
On 6/14/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
aventurer2005-1(a)yahoo.com wrote:
2 questions:
1) Is there planned support for WYSIWIG editing, like what you get in
yahoo email / gmail / blogger / etc. where you see bold/italic/etc.
updated in place?
Not at present.
While some browsers include tools for WYSIWYG editing of HTML,
MediaWiki's markup is not HTML. Adapting such tools would require
conversion back and forth, which would probably be lossy and difficult
and produce frequently broken, ugly results -- what you see *won't* be
what you get.
Other alternatives are likely to be even more difficult and/or would be
limited in what they could do or how well they might work (eg,
duplicating both the wiki parser and a text editor widget's behavior in
JS+HTML; a Java applet might hypothetically be more reliable but there
are pitfalls there too, besides the general problem of divergence
between parsers and inability for the client to do some things without
the server's access to the database).
If you just want a CMS with WYSIWYG editing, I'm sure there are plenty
out there to choose from.
2) Does anyone have a script for doing bulk
article upload? For a new
wiki, I would like to populate it with 20-30 articles that are
already written, but I don't want to have to enter them in manually
one at a time.
http://pywikipediabot.sf.net/
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com <http://pobox.com>)
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