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

[Erik Moeller]

On 8/9/06, Christiaan Briggs <christiaan at yurkycross.co.uk> wrote:
> > This is really not true at all. Both Wikia and SocialText are
> > working hard to get WYSIWYG right in MediaWiki. It's a big, big
> > challenge if you try to preserve wiki mark-up and functionality
> > (templates, magic words etc.) at the same time. We'd all love to
> > see it, but we can neither make existing Wikimedia content stop
> > working nor exclude users with disabilities or low-end software/
> > hardware from editing our projects in the process.

> "We'd all love to see it" Are you sure about that Erik?

I'm sure that if you keep debating the issue, some people who dislike
WYSIWYG will tell you so. But that is not the reason we don't have
WYSIWYG in MediaWiki.

Erik