New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Status of wysiwyg editors for mw1.9?

10 Apr 2007

...
 This isn't the answer you're looking for, but
here's what worked at my
organization. When we rolled out MediaWiki, the big message to the team
was: 
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 "Just type." 
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 Put blank lines between your paragraphs and click Save.
 That's it. 
That`s exactly my current approach :) 
'Keep it simple, don`t try to overformat things, be willing to delete a 100lines ones
they get inaccurate or obsolete.'

...
 And if you WANT to do formatting, here's a
cheatsheet.  But don't let
that stand in the way of documenting what you know. 
And we also have that one :)

...
 Then we have a few motivated people who scurry around
improving the
formatting on other people's pages as they run across them. 
ok, there we currently have only just ONE, but we`re working on it :)

...
 It worked out well, even with the WYSIWYG die-hards.

It works here - but only with the pure technical staff (and even some of those guys are
quite hard to change).

The bad things are:
- users without basic wikicode expirience see wikicode mingled with content (inline links,
formatting etc) and their initial reaction is 'i cannot read that - it`s too
complicated', which is - although a purely psychological problem - a major factor with
my users: 'if it does not behave like M$ Word, i cannot use it'. (Imagine a
'normal user' opening a page containing tables in edit-mode... ok, i`ve banned the
use of tables, but even the little things like '===' or '*' come quite
hard to most of them.
- lacking ability to abstract content from design and/or the will to do so or to even
try.

So i`m looking for a way to 'lower the bar'. 

...
 DanB  
nevertheless: thanks :)
dwe

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