SMW+ lives on as DataWiki, from DIQA-PM.
They have graciously made the MW19/SMW8 *_test_ *repository available at
http://repository.data-wiki.com/release180/.
You will note that WYSWYG is no longer there -- WikiEditor is being
distributed. I'm working now to get this new suite running, and will
report how much the Annotation toolbar and other items in the previous
editing interface, have been preserved.
Thanks!
/jmc
On 11/6/2013 4:18 PM, trueskew wrote:
Short history:
With Mediawiki 1.16 / Semantic Mediawiki 1.5.2 / Semantic Forms
0.4.1, you could open a form, and in the free text area you could
enable a rich text editor, FCKeditor 1.0.1 (a.k.a. CKEditor).
Then there was SMW+, which went to Mediawiki 1.17 / SMW (not sure) /
and WYSIWYG, which I believe is an update to FCKeditor. It had the
same functionality with Semantic Forms, and they improved it quite a
bit over FCKeditor.
The SMW+ is no longer what it used to be (I'll leave it at that, there
are plenty of discussions about it's status changes online), a group
has been updating the WYSIWYG extension to work with later versions of
Mediawiki:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WYSIWYG
I've tried it, it's the best so far and very robust compared to
FCKeditor. It has a feature set that appears to greatly exceed that of
the roadmap of the VisualEditor effort:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
particularly for those of us in a work environment where things like
Word import is valuable. You can see a discussion about this here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.semediawiki.user/14775
Project Idea:
I suggest a project to get the WYSIWYG extension working with the
latest Semantic Forms, in a way that can be supported with little if
any effort in later versions of Semantic Forms. I believe it would be
a greatly appreciated effort for more organizations than just mine.
Thanks, and good luck.
Sal
*From:*Chenoweth, Stephen V [mailto:cheno...@rose-hulman.edu]
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:22 AM
*To:* semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* [SMW-devel] A list of suggested developments for undergrads
to try?
Everyone,
Any ideas for a serious class project, like in PHP, perhaps, that also
would be useful to SMW?
I have 23 talented junior CS majors who built a SMW-based Wiki this
fall. When populated with data, it will show the flow of concepts
related to our courses, etc. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
This same class is next heading into a course in software design. I
would love to give them a design and programming project to do, which
could benefit this particular Wiki they built, but which also would be
of interest to you, the SMW community. I suggested PHP, above,
because a key goal of the design course is for the students to become
adept at software patterns and other OO skills.
As a student project, this should not be something critical in your
development path, but, ideally, if they produced a high quality
result, it is something that might end up rolled into the general
product or might become an extension. In previous classes, we have
ended up submitting results back into SourceForge.
So, do you have specific ideas that come to mind? Or, do you have a
"wish list" already, that they could go look at, and choose for
themselves?
We would love to have this class be the test case for an ongoing
relationship.
Your recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Steve Chenoweth
Assoc Prof, CSSE
RHIT
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