Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-11 Thread David Gerard
On 10 February 2011 23:28, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: David Gerard wrote: My last experiment with FCK was hampered by it messing up the tags used by Extension:InputBox - our users are very fond of the Create an article! box I put on the front page of our internal wikis, but

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-11 Thread Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
Good idea! Though FCK kindly makes it impossible even to properly create the *template*. I had to comment it out in LocalSettings.php, create {{Create an article}} then uncomment it. Still, it's there now ... sort of a workaround :-) - d. To set a page, like your template, to not use the

[Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread David Gerard
I have a requirement for an intranet wiki for sales, marketing and other people who have no technical abilities whatsoever. I'd like to use MediaWiki. This requires WYSIWYG. There is no good WYSIWYG for MediaWiki - but what are the least-worst solutions others have managed with this requirement,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Haim (Howard) Roman
What do you mean by good? A full-fledged office suite, e.g. Open or MS? Auto-completion when typing in names of articles in your wiki, or templates? As far as I can tell, Media Wiki was designed for relatively simple formatting. I admit I write in wiki-text, though I now tend to switch to

[Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread David Gerard
(to list as well) -- Forwarded message -- From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Date: 10 February 2011 16:58 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution? To: Haim (Howard) Roman ro...@jct.ac.il On 10 February 2011 16:46, Haim (Howard) Roman ro...@jct.ac.il

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
I've been using the FCKeditor with our wikis and it is fine for regular use. So if your users will just be entering text and an occasional table or image it is more than fine. But, if they plan to do things a little more fancy such as adding links or alt-text to images or using templates they

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Chad
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: [...] But, if they plan to do things a little more fancy such as adding links Links sure are fancy! -Chad ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 February 2011 17:02, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I've been using the FCKeditor with our wikis and it is fine for regular use.   So if your users will just be entering text and an occasional table or image it is more than fine.  But, if they plan to do

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
. If they did I would be getting a lot of complaints about using the FCKeditor wrt images. -Jim -Original Message- From: David Gerard [mailto:dger...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:01 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 February 2011 19:24, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: The FCKeditor does not handle these image attributes, just size, position and caption, which was my only point about links, and yes, I consider it fancy since most users do not add these attributes to their

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:35 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution? On 10 February 2011 19:24, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: The FCKeditor does not handle these image

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Least-worst present WYSIWYG solution?

2011-02-10 Thread Platonides
David Gerard wrote: This is most promising :-D Yes, if they want to do fancy image attributes they can use wikitext :-) My last experiment with FCK was hampered by it messing up the tags used by Extension:InputBox - our users are very fond of the Create an article! box I put on the front