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

[dirk.westfal at frankfurter-verein.de]

>This isn't the answer you're looking for, but here's what worked at my
>organization. When we rolled out MediaWiki, the big message to the team
>was:

>"Just type."

>Put blank lines between your paragraphs and click Save.  That's it.

That`s exactly my current approach :) 
'Keep it simple, don`t try to overformat things, be willing to delete a 100lines ones they get inaccurate or obsolete.'

>And if you WANT to do formatting, here's a cheatsheet.  But don't let
>that stand in the way of documenting what you know.

And we also have that one :)

>Then we have a few motivated people who scurry around improving the
>formatting on other people's pages as they run across them.

ok, there we currently have only just ONE, but we`re working on it :)

>It worked out well, even with the WYSIWYG die-hards.

It works here - but only with the pure technical staff (and even some of those guys are quite hard to change).

The bad things are:
- users without basic wikicode expirience see wikicode mingled with content (inline links, formatting etc) and their initial reaction is 'i cannot read that - it`s too complicated', which is - although a purely psychological problem - a major factor with my users: 'if it does not behave like M$ Word, i cannot use it'. (Imagine a 'normal user' opening a page containing tables in edit-mode... ok, i`ve banned the use of tables, but even the little things like '===' or '*' come quite hard to most of them.
- lacking ability to abstract content from design and/or the will to do so or to even try.
 
So i`m looking for a way to 'lower the bar'. 


>DanB
 
nevertheless: thanks :)
dwe