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From: "lampak" llampak@gmail.com
I've been following the discussion and as I can see it's already become rather unproductive*. So I hope my cutting in will not be very much out of place (even if I don't really know what I'm talking about).
Many people here has stated the main reason why a WYSIWYG editor is not feasible is the current wikitext syntax.
What's actually wrong with it?
Oh god! *Run*!!!!!
:-)
This has been done a dozen times in the last 5 years, lampak. The short version, as much as *I* am displeased with the fact that we'll never have *bold*, /italic/ and _underscore_, is that the installed base, both of articles and editors, means that Mediawikitext will never change.
It *might* be possible to *extend* it, but that requires that at least one of the 94 projects to write a formally defined parser for it, in something resembling yacc, would have to complete -- and to my knowledge, none has done so.
Cheers, -- jra