On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is a question in the wrong order, the first
question should be do you
think that the WMF projects will benefit from this. The second question
would be what does it take to make this happen. Wikia has had much more
incentive to concentrate on usability. It has many wikis that demonstrate
the effectiveness of their changes. Like the UNICEF extensions they are
based on a need and on observation.
When you ask will it be "easy", it is likely that you will find that it is
hard work and that several hard issues need to be resolved. The good news is
that this can be done together with Wikia and or UNICEF. *That* would make
the grant go that much further
I would just like to know how hard is it to implement. Usually, all
significant technical issues related to WMF MW installations have
significant technical problems. This is especially true whenever we
are talking about MW Parser. But, if the second largest MW host
implemented it, it gives to me a hope that it is possible.
Knowing that it is based on FCKeditor, and knowing how it works
(including a possibility to switch to wiki markup), it would be really
great to see it on WMF sites (even I am not one of those who would
benefit from it because it is easier to me to type ''...'' instead of
CTRL+I...CTRL+I).