On 8/2/10 9:29 AM, Павел Петроченко wrote:
Hi guys,
At the moment we are discussing an opportunity to create full scale true WYSIWYG client for media wiki. To the moment we have a technology which should allow us to implement with a good quality and quite fast. Unfortunately we are not sure if there is a real need/interest for having such kind of client at the media wiki world, as well as what are actual needs of media wiki users.
Definitely interested.
As for what the needs of MediaWiki users are, you can check out everything on http://usability.wikimedia.org/ . We are just beginning to address usability concerns. This study might be interesting to you:
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_and_Experience_Study
P.S. Screen cast demonstrating our experimental client for Trac wiki http://www.screencast.com/t/MDkzYzM4
That was very interesting. Any chance the rest of us can try it for ourselves?
I personally like the idea of a ribbon. I think we can assume that most wiki editors are always going to be novice editors, so taking up tremendous amounts of space by default to explain things is warranted. Experts should be able to drop into raw wikitext, or otherwise minimize the interface.
I don't have an issue with there being a closed source Windows app that edits wikitext well, but then there is going to be a bit of a difficult transition from reading to editing and back again.
And just FYI, generally our community is more interested in free and cross-platform software than proprietary, single platform software.
Still it looks interesting. Please let us know more.