I am interested in discussing and hashing out the challenges of WYSIWYG editing. I also think that this kind of project is the kind of thing that would make alot of sense to develop in a sourceforge project dedicated to mediawiki extensions.
I know that MW extensions are talked about centrally here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions
but I am talking about a sf project where the source itself is kept, and developers are granted access much more freely than on the mediawiki project itself. Extensions may eventually be merged into the core distribution, or they could maintain a life of their own, used in MW installations, but not on the 'pedia.
I brought this idea up once before, but nobody responded to my suggestion. Does that mean there is no interest? How about a project called mediawiki-extensions, or mediawiki-collective, or mediawiki-bizarre (the last two might make more sense if we conceive of this area as a collection of bot scripts, maintenance scripts, etc, in addition to just extensions). I would be happy to request this project name, as well as add anyone who is interested in becoming a developer or admin on the project.
Thoughts?
/Jonah
On Jan 29, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Urs C Muff wrote:
Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Urs C Muff umuff71@email.com writes:
I would like to collect a list of dev's that want to contribute to a WYSIWYG effort for MediaWiki.
Why do you think WYSIWYG effort is useful? The current offering already does more harm than good. People adding [[weird]] [[links]] [[all]] [[the]] [[time]]...
Well some people will just not be able to get comfortable with markup, even thought the markup is designed to be human friendly it is still markup. To open the application to more users a WYSIWYG editor will be required (for us), and since this is open source and we are sharing resources I would like to coordinate that effort. Of course if I'm the only one interested, I will just do it my way...
- Urs
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