Christiaan Briggs schreef: [cut]
The reason I'm posting this is simply put forward the view that I hope WYSIWYG or some relevant variant will be developed for Wikimedia projects in the near future, because I think the hurdles that stop many people from participating on our office intranet apply equally to Wikimedia projects. And the hurdle is not that wiki markup is "difficult" or "hard to learn" but that it is intimidating and time- consuming to learn.
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[MediaWiki] will also be developed by full-time employees of the private organizations Wikia.com (the company of Jimbo) and Socialtext.com. This should increase strongly the development of MediaWiki. A new component to MediaWiki is expected to make "wysiwyg"-editing possible. This means that you will have an editbox that looks like the compose window of Hotmail or Gmail with options the edit a page without to see all the sourcetext with all the code. There is hope that this will lower the barrier for new people to work on the projects. http://wikiwyg.net/ - with a picture how it will (possibly) look like http://www.socialtext.com/node/90 http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/wysiwyg_and_wik.html
(Wikizine number 37)