2009/9/15 Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru:
Hi! I've read that usability is important for MediaWiki. Why don't integrate wikitext syntax highlighting then?
We're planning to do exactly that in our third release (Citron). Right now, we're working on bugfixing and deploying our second release (Babaco).
That will greatly improve editing of the pages. There is Extension:WikEd which has most of the work implemented already. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WikEd_screenshot.png
Yeah, we knew about wikEd, and we'll definitely be looking at it.
I know that it should be possible to install the extension separately. But I remember that important extensions are sometimes integrated into MediaWiki. There's also FCKeditor, but it cannot perform diffs, and visual editing is not always desirable (non-technical users like it, but I personally prefer to edit wikitext).
There's still quite a few issues with FCKeditor, and as far as I know it's been decided that the usability project is not gonna cover WYSIWYG; I'm not entirely sure of the official stance here, you'd have to ask Naoko.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)