Rich Editor? Do you mean the markup editor that is not WYSIWYG but rich in features? I know that WikEd is quite active but look pretty monstrous to the untrained eye :-) ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Johan Ramm-Ericson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > As I've googled around a bit on the subject of a Rich Editor for > MediaWiki, I can see that there has been some discussion on this subject > already. Just let me quickly fill you in on my approach: > > I work as a Linux sys admin and have been administrating a fairly large > MediaWiki server on the company Intranet for a while now. Recently there > has been *a lot* of internal discussion abut the availability of a Rich > Editor as the WYSIWYG extension became incompatible after upgrading from > MediaWiki 1.17.x to 1.19.x. Also, despite my adamant suggestions WikiEditor > gets little or no internal approval. By the way; no need to dive into a > discussion about why we upgraded despite knowing that the WYSIWYG extension > would not work. > > I'm now trying to get internal support for putting up money to pay a > skillful programmer to finish whatever needs to be done to get a Rich > Editor out into a stable state for a given MediaWiki release. So here are > my questions to you: > > * What is the state of Rich Editor extensions for MediaWiki - is Visual > Editor the main contender or are there other more suitable choices? > * How far from a stable release is each respective Rich Editor? > * What needs to be done to get it / them into a stable state? How many > hours would a programmer with relevant skills need to get it / them there? > * What are the relevant skills a programmer would need? > * Any recommendation for programmers that could do the job in a relatively > short time frame? > > Hope I'm asking this in the right forum, if I'm not I'd appreciate if you > could point me in the right direction. > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Johan > > --- > Johan Ramm-Ericson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise > >
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