[Mediawiki-l] what-you-see-is-what-you-get edit program?

[Rowan Collins]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:03:36 -0500, Evan Prodromou <evan at bad.dynu.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 12:43 -0700, Sterling D. Allan wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me if there is already in existence an editor program that
> > enables one to edit mediawiki pages in a "what you see is what you get" mode
> > (editing for dummies)?

> This is a subject near and dear to my heart. There's a good discussion
> on meta.wikimedia.org:
> 
>         http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

It might also be worth looking at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools for some of the things
people *have* already coded. From memory, the only thing that comes
anywhere close is the Eclipse plugin [as linked by Tony] - it's not
wysiwyg, but I believe it does "understand" wikitext natively, and
render it live, as well as interfacing with the server, so it's
possibly only that one step away (I haven't actually used it by the
way, just read about it).

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]