Matthew Simoneau wrote:
Hi all,
First of all, I'm sending a big thank you to everyone who contributes code to MediaWiki. You all make this social revolution possible.
Based on Jimmy Wales' Wikimania keynote and other sources, I know that much of the community recognizes WYSIWYG editing as an important feature for enabling greater participation. There's a comment, however, from Brion on the discussion page of the MediaWiki roadmap http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap that it isn't in their immediate plans.
A page on Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor lists several experiments and implementation ideas, but is anyone seriously tackling this problem? Should we take up a collection to hire a developer to work on this? Or maybe to offer X PRIZE style bounty for a successful implementation? I'm in for $25!
well, we recently started to integrate Yulup (http://www.yulup.org/) resp. the Neutron protocol (http://neutron.wyona.org/) which I think would make editing really simple and also allow to connect many other editors without much effort, but because of our unfamiliarity of the MediaWiki code our efforts stalled.
I would be very happy to restart, but would need some help from someone familiar with the MediaWiki code (instead of money ;-) I think for someone experienced it might take 1-2 days (also see http://neutron.wyona.org/#getting_started).
Cheers
Michael
Sincerely, Matthew Simoneau http://www.matthewsim.com/
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