I know this is probably anti-Wiki too, but is there any way of incorporating a WYSIWYG editor (a la htmlarea) into mediawiki?
Nick
Nick Bell wrote:
I know this is probably anti-Wiki too, but is there any way of incorporating a WYSIWYG editor (a la htmlarea) into mediawiki?
Not at present. You'd have to either give everything over to HTML or try to hack a wiki<->html<->wiki converter, which would inevitably be lossy, or put a *lot* of effort into a magic JavaScript/DHTML reimplementation of text editing.
Some discussion: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Nick Bell wrote:> I know this is probably anti-Wiki too, but is there any way of incorporating a WYSIWYG editor (a la htmlarea) into mediawiki?
Not at present. You'd have to either give everything over to HTML or try to hack a wiki<->html<->wiki converter, which would inevitably be lossy, or put a *lot* of effort into a magic JavaScript/DHTML reimplementation of text editing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion. I have looked at HTML2wiki and it seemed to work VERY well. I would like to try and integrate the Epoz editor, and run the output through the converter before saving to mediawiki. We are only a few weeks into MediaWiki, and still not familiar with integrating external source. Can you give us a few clues about how we would go about plugging in Epoz? At first glance, there seem to be many things to consider.
Would we have to fully integrate it with the monobook template (the ONLY one we are using, presently)? Is there a preferred method of running such source as a special page? Would we integrate the epoz form into the editpage.php code itself, or run epoz into a MW template and add all the MW actions from it's source?
Can you give us a bullet-point jumpstart in how to approach this? I'm sure other daring types would find the tips VERY helpful. Perhaps one of us can get a working implementation running for the benefit of all.
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