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

[Gary Kirk]

I'm sorry, but I just don't understand how it is hard to use...sure, tables
might be a little difficult, and having images how you want them too, but
for simple editing it really isn't, especially with the edit bar.

-- gary kirk


On 8/8/06, MHart <wiki at matthart.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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-- 
Gary Kirk