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:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> 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 ... _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
