[Mediawiki-l] wikiwyg in mediawiki

[Christiaan Briggs]

On 26 Apr 2006, at 11:06 PM, Tels wrote:

> And I think since adding a headline is actually only 6 chars more  
> than typing the text, most people found UI where you'd have to  
> click "add a new headline here" more to bother than just to type it  
> in. So thats probably the reason nobody bothered to make a WYSIWYG  
> editor.

No, this isn't the case. Lack of WYSIWYG editing on our wiki intranet  
is the biggest impediment to wide-scale adoption. Period.

People feel overwhelmed as it is by their computers. MediaWiki markup  
to them is just another language they don't have time to learn. And I  
don't blame them.

Christiaan