Hello, My Question is, If MediaWiki does not support any WYSIWYG editor, then would it be not hard for editors to post their material using this Wiki ?
How does a lame user fnid his way around MediaWiki's Syntax ? There has to be some other alternative.
I read on Wikipedia :
*"* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki* Media Wiki has a partial, (kind of a special MediaWiki 1.5.3 experimental version **EnotifWiki*http://www.enotifwiki.org/ * + **FCKeditor* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCKeditor* )support of **WYSIWYG page editing* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor*"* ** Can someone guide me as why WYSIWYG was not included in Mediawiki and still is not ? What alternative do i have if my requirement is strongly focused on a wiki supporting WYSIWYG .
-- Regards Umair ** ** ** **
My Question is, If MediaWiki does not support any WYSIWYG editor, then would it be not hard for editors to post their material using this Wiki ?
How does a lame user fnid his way around MediaWiki's Syntax ? There has to be some other alternative.
While there have been lots of suggestions for WYSIWYG, it is very difficult to implement with the current syntax (for technical reasons I don't fully understand). The MediaWiki syntax isn't that difficult to learn, however. You don't even need to use it at all, you can just type in plain text. If you want simple formatting (headers, bold, italic), it's quite easy. Things like tables and templates are much more complicated, but there is no need to use them for most content.
And the only problem is that i have to be bound to a WYSIWYG based wiki. Is there any other wiki which is as stable and simple as Media Wiki ? I have been looking at xWiki, but it seems very complicated.
Any suggestions ?
-- regards Umair
On 7/23/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
My Question is, If MediaWiki does not support any WYSIWYG editor, then
would
it be not hard for editors to post their material using this Wiki ?
How does a lame user fnid his way around MediaWiki's Syntax ? There has to be some other alternative.
While there have been lots of suggestions for WYSIWYG, it is very difficult to implement with the current syntax (for technical reasons I don't fully understand). The MediaWiki syntax isn't that difficult to learn, however. You don't even need to use it at all, you can just type in plain text. If you want simple formatting (headers, bold, italic), it's quite easy. Things like tables and templates are much more complicated, but there is no need to use them for most content.
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Socialtext: (www.socialtext.com) http://www.socialtext.com and Twiki ( www.twiki.org) are both very good wikis and they both have Wikiwig and are free to download and install on your own servers.
I am sure there are others too.
Paul Y (I work for Socialtext)
On 7/23/07, Umair Imam umimam@gmail.com wrote:
And the only problem is that i have to be bound to a WYSIWYG based wiki. Is there any other wiki which is as stable and simple as Media Wiki ? I have been looking at xWiki, but it seems very complicated.
Any suggestions ?
-- regards Umair
On 7/23/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
My Question is, If MediaWiki does not support any WYSIWYG editor, then
would
it be not hard for editors to post their material using this Wiki ?
How does a lame user fnid his way around MediaWiki's Syntax ? There has to be some other alternative.
While there have been lots of suggestions for WYSIWYG, it is very difficult to implement with the current syntax (for technical reasons I don't fully understand). The MediaWiki syntax isn't that difficult to learn, however. You don't even need to use it at all, you can just type in plain text. If you want simple formatting (headers, bold, italic), it's quite easy. Things like tables and templates are much more complicated, but there is no need to use them for most content.
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And the only problem is that i have to be bound to a WYSIWYG based wiki. Is there any other wiki which is as stable and simple as Media Wiki ?
MoinMoin (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/) has integrated WYSIWYG (via FCKeditor IIRC). However, none of the wiki engines I know is as easy and powerful as MediaWiki (though my perspective might be skewed here, as I have much more experience with MW than with any other wiki engine).
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