[Mediawiki-l] Adding FCKeditor to intranet wiki?

[Brian J Mingus]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:00 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/6 Brian J Mingus <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
>
> > I use fckeditor on wmf-deployment and it works. In fact I'm using it in
> > conjunction with the Usability Initiative extension/editor. If you want
> > fckeditor for 1.12 you'll have to get an old version of it that supports
> the
> > old preprocessor.
>
>
> Yeah, I want the shiny new stuff in FCK :-) It's actually decent
> WYSIWYG now. (Even if it doesn't implement *all* the whacky stuff
> people do with wikitext on English Wikipedia, for example.)
>
> So pulling wmf-deployment is a suitable thing to do? I'd rather wait
> for a 1.16 package, but I've seen the wikitech-l discussions about how
> that's not really ready for a tarball yet.
>
>
> - d.
>

I personally don't see the point in using a versioned release, so I don't
;-) Other people will tell you differently, but I find running stable trunk
provides the most flexibility and you also get many newer features not
available in the releases.