I've been following the CKeditor effort and their promises, once version 3.0 was out,
to work on a CKeditor+Mediawiki. Version 3.2 is now out and no sign of a
CKeditor+Mediawiki effort, and most concerning is the lack of any recent responses to
direct questions about the previously promised effort on the CKeditor's forum.
Wikia's efforts are not comforting either. Almost all wikia wikis I have visited have
the wysiwyg editor disabled, which is not the default, so people must be purposely
disabling it. And the discussion page of wikia's editor help page
(
http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help_talk:Rich_text_editor) has people asking for the older
version of the editor because of problems with their latest version.
We are currently using version 2.6.4 of the FCKeditor and even with its issues have found
it has lead to a wider acceptance of using our wikis. For us there is no going back to
wikitext. If the wysiwyg editor future is not resolved for Mediawiki soon I'm afraid
we will be forced to move toward another wiki software, most likely commercial where
wysiwyg has been around for years, because requiring non-technical people to learn a
markup language to use a wiki seems archaic in the 21st century.
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayton [mailto:ccornell@openoffice.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:51 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor svn head and MW 1.16b2 - correct venue?
On 05/19/2010 01:20 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 18 May 2010 18:35, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Forwarding on behalf of Jack, which is not
subscribed:
Maybe the
best idea would be to kill off our FCKeditor extension and try
to collaborate with Wikia regarding their CKeditor integration extension.
It certainly would be cool to have a good WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki
one day...
argh argh argh. I was so looking forward to 1.16 specifically for a
half-decent WYSIWYG editor ...
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