[Mediawiki-l] RFC - Diderot WikiWriter Project - Pre-Release Announce

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The '''Diderot''' WikiWriter alpha is soon to be released. 

'''Diderot''' is going to become the first full-featured, offline-online
Wikipedia Editor with

* Source Coloring
* Source Folding
* integrated Browser Window
* Category Browser
* Asynchronous Put and Get of Wikipedia Pages (you don’t have to wait
until a page is saved)
* Parallel Editing of Multiple Articles

In the future, we plan to add a variety of new features: 

* Recent Change Agent with Notification Function, able to process RegEx
* Search & Replace with RegEx
* Integrated Watchlist with automated update
* Automatic resolving of Redirects
* and many other ... participate and submit a Feature Request on our
Project Summary Page at http://wikiwriter.sourceforge.net!

On the Project Homepage at http://wikiwriter.sourceforge.net you can
find some Screenshots. 

The package will currently only run under WinXP, but in the future we
will try to support unix platforms as well. 

This will depend on volunteers to tackle some developement tasks. 
Any pythonists are welcome to participate. 

The project is based on python and comes with a PSF licence. 
Sources can be found on the project page on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiwriter.

==IMPORTANT==
This announce is in some way a test on how many interest there is in
such a tool. So please put your vote on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dedicated Dedicated Wikipedia
editor/Diderot. 

If there is positive feedback from the community, the project should
soon grow into some stable beta release.

Please use the sourceforge trackers to submit your feature requests or
mailto:wikiwiki(at)vr(dash)web(dot)de.

The final alpha release announce will be posted in the next days.

Enjoy!

Shannon