[Mediawiki-l] WYSIWYG support

[paul youlten]

Socialtext: (www.socialtext.com) <http://www.socialtext.com> and Twiki (
www.twiki.org) are both very good wikis and they both have Wikiwig and are
free to download and install on your own servers.

I am sure there are others too.

Paul Y
(I work for Socialtext)

On 7/23/07, Umair Imam <umimam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And the only problem is that i have to be bound to a WYSIWYG based wiki.
> Is there any other wiki which is as stable and simple as Media Wiki ?
> I have been looking at xWiki, but it seems very complicated.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> --
> regards
> Umair
>
>
> On 7/23/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My Question is, If MediaWiki does not support any WYSIWYG editor, then
>
> > would
> > > it be not hard for editors to post their material using this Wiki ?
> > >
> > > How does a lame user fnid his way around MediaWiki's Syntax ?
> > > There has to be some other alternative.
> >
> > While there have been lots of suggestions for WYSIWYG, it is very
> > difficult to implement with the current syntax (for technical reasons
> > I don't fully understand). The MediaWiki syntax isn't that difficult
> > to learn, however. You don't even need to use it at all, you can just
> > type in plain text. If you want simple formatting (headers, bold,
> > italic), it's quite easy. Things like tables and templates are much
> > more complicated, but there is no need to use them for most content.
> >
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