[Mediawiki-l] Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki

[MHart]

Intuit uses MediaWiki in the majority of its internal wikis - over 100. We 
have one MediaWiki running with fck. Some groups are migrating to Jotspot 
since it provides wysiwyg.

The lack of wysiwyg is indeed a hurdle for contributors. Even at a "techie" 
company like Intuit, half the potential contributors see wikitext as a 
hurdle.

This number likely reflects the rest of the world - it wouldn't surprise me 
if many potential Wikipedia contributors are also stymied by wikitext. Do 
you have the number of Edit clicks that didn't then result in a Save? That 
might be a decent indicator of first-time contribution attempts that failed 
for some reason - possibly intimidated by wikitext.

The one wiki we have with fck was an add-on to an existing wiki and 
encountered the compatibility issues Brion mentioned. However, just as the 
community cleans up wikitext pages, the community cleaned up the conversion 
issues - just as they would in Wikipedia.

You get the closest conversion that you can and then people will clean up 
what remains.

- MHart