On 11-05-02 12:04 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
Can someone please tell me, in precise technical terms, what is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG editor and why we can't use it?
I have heard that it has bugs in it, but I have not been told exactly what these bugs are, why they are more relevant for Wikimedia than for Wikia, or why they can't be fixed.
Years ago, we talked dismissively about WYSIWYG. We discussed the features that a WYSIWYG editor would have to have, pointing out how difficult they would be to implement and how we didn't have the manpower to pull off such a thing. Now that Wikia has gone ahead and implemented those exact features, what is the problem?
-- Tim Starling
I wouldn't say more relevant for Wikimedia than Wikia, but more relevant for encyclopedia that care about their wikitext than a social wiki run by newbies who don't even know what wikitext or a template is.
Most of the wiki I was involved in on Wikia all have the RTE disabled because the RTE made additional unwanted changes when editing destroying diffs, in one case destroyed a bulleted list item every time the page was edited, and also increased the number of new users making bad edits like inserting an image in the middle of a run of text because on their monitor in the WYSIWYG editor it was aligned where they thought it should be.