[WikiEN-l] More on Tables

[David Gerard]

2008/9/16 Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>> So being at-heart a consummate traitor, I've been toying around at Knol,
>>  and
>> also at Google Sites and at Pbwiki.  I was just updating a page tonight  on
>> my Knol user-page when I realized that Knol has a rather nice  "table
>> creator/editor".  I've used it a few times, but it was always  sort-of
>> "blah whatever"
>> until I had to tonight actually move
>> cell-contents-with-their-associated-LINKS around in a table.
>> It was... quite simple, with no hidden problems.  Can we not get that  in
>> the
>> next MediaWiki upgrade go-round ?  It would so simplify the  beautification
>> of tabular data and ease the transition for editors who can't  quite get
>> their
>> minds wrapped around our current bizarre and  unique table-coding.  The
>> number
>> of editors we have who understand how  to create and maintain in-wiki
>> tables
>> is quite minute, and this WYSIWIG editor  just makes it all very
>> transparent
>> and easy.

> I'm quite surprised nobody replied to this - unless this was a crosspost to
> another list related to the software itself and replies are flowing in
> there.


I've forwarded it to mediawiki-l.

Probably the most useful thing would be to bring the Knol table editor
to the attention of the FCK Editor for MediaWiki project. I think
that's the most functional WYSIWYG MediaWiki editor at present.


- d.