[Mediawiki-l] Status of wysiwyg editors for mw1.9?

[dirk.westfal at frankfurter-verein.de]

Hi all, 

does someone know the status/plans for 'real' wysiwyg editors included in mediawiki?

Around release of 1.5 there was a real spike in development, however this appears to have faded into a trickle :( - and much information about wysiwyg editors found in meta is no longer accurate :(:(.

- Wikiwyg does not appear under active development on the mediawiki site.
(to quote the developer who wrote the conversion to make it work with mw : 'it`s been month i`ve looked at that code - it`s quite ugly.)

- FCKEditor is the most advanced, but has 'serious issues' with mw 1.9 - at least if you don`t want it to convert wikicode to html and save it as html ... there are rumors some people solved them, however it is still quite buggy and awkward (callig perl from php, well... :))

- Mozile has much potential, but the xsl-stylesheet for the conversion is still quite 'rough' and there isn`t a working 'load&save' implementation for it.


and this goes on.

But: considering one wants 'the big hats'/'wikicode illiterate' being able to take active part in a mediawiki based wiki on an intranet, there`s just no way without an wysiwyg editor providing at least basic formatting and bulleted lists. I`d go for a basic editor which is just able to do basic formatting and preserves all othere elements for the users mentioned above and using the 'code way' for the admins/section maintainers.

So the question is: 
- does anyone have a working wysiwyg editor on a mw 1.9 installation? If so - which one?

- are there any plans for one in the main mw code branch?


many thanks,
dwe