[Foundation-l] Wiki work

[David Gerard]

On 26/02/2008, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:

> well, confluence *does* offer wysiwyg, in contrary to mediawiki...


Lack of good WYSIWYG in MediaWiki is a major problem for wider
acceptance of the software. This is a well-understood problem, if an
as yet unsolved one :-)

There are some WYSIWYG editors for MediaWiki, but they're not that
great beyond the basics of wikitext. Anything fancy is fraught with
difficulties.

    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor

Good WYSIWYG is mostly blocked on a good wikitext grammar. Steve
Bennett is leading the effort to write one on wikitext-l:

    http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/

You can see work so far at:

    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/ANTLR

Once that's done, WYSIWYG editor writers won't have to try to
reverse-engineer wikitext themselves.


- d.