2009/4/24 Jacopo Corbetta jacopo.corbetta@gmail.com:
An existing example of us providing users with such an option however can be seen in the ability to turn various editing-related gadgets such as wikiEd. I think this shows that should a more visual editing interface become able to be deployed, we certainly would make it optional.
Exactly. Each editor has its own incompatible setting which allows it to be turned on or off. Basically, each extension assumes it is going to be the one and only one editor for the wiki. If you install more than one, things will break. A unified preference might have been useful. Anyway, no big deal.
I don't believe any WYSIWYG (or close to) editor that exists for MediaWiki is good enough that you can completely avoid editing the wikitext directly (in order to do complicated stuff), that means you can't use one and only one editor unless that editor is the default wikitext editor.