On 02/08/2012 09:33 AM, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
Hello. I'm new here and I wish to help out here as well. I don't have the full picture of what is being discussed seeing that the e-Mail I tried to read it too long. From what I understand it that the wiki markup editor is being replaced with a graphic editor with a completely new markup processor. My opinion on this is that that is a bad idea because there are millions of experienced users who are used to working with Wiki-Markup codes. My opinion on the matter is to have the graphic editor available side by side with the markup editor being able to choose at will which editor people would like to edit with. Default preferences can be set. The graphic editor will translate the page into Wiki-Markup and save. This method will be more efficient for the programmers saving time and resources. Any thoughts?
Hi, Maximilian! Thanks for your interest in our plans.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future is the best place to read what we have planned. The very short answer is -- yes! You have described basically what we are planning to do. :-)
You might especially be interested in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Software_design
and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Phase_2
Gabriel Wicke and Trevor Parscal can help you find ways to help out -- they read this list, and Gabriel is often on IRC during the German daytime as gwicke in the #mediawiki channel on Freenode.
Thanks!