On 23 December 2010 08:41, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I don't have WMF numbers, but one contributor on mediawiki-l, who runs an intranet covering a large public service organisation in the US, reported a remarkable uptake in wiki participation just by going to FCKeditor. The users are smart, capable and competent people in their fields, but were seriously put off by wikitext.
I took a look at this:
While that demo doesn't really match what a fully integrated Mediawiki-based WYSIWYG editor would look like (no internal links so you have to enter the full URL for every link, for instance), it does give a taste for how ckeditor would differ from the plain text and markup we use now.
Personally I find that kind of stuff hopelessly confusing and off-putting, and I would hate to have to use it, but I take your point that it might improve takeup for people who find to messing with complex toolbars easier than learning half a dozen simple text markup rules ([[a|b]], [a b], ''italic'', ''bold''',' <ref name=></ref>, ==section==).