I see we're loading the entire core for the YUI into Wikia.
I'm wondering, how much of this is going to stick around? I've actually 
been working on ways to use the YUI and a few other things inside of 
MediaWiki. (I Got YUI Animated Tabs working, and EditArea's Syntax 
Highlighting enabled editor to work via Userscript only.) It could be 
nice to use the YAHOO YUI Libs to take the place of some of the existing 
things such as ShowHide and the cookie's used in some things like my 
CharInsert hider with cookie persistence.

On the note of editors. What's the status of the plans for WYSIWYG? I 
looked over WYSIWYG extensions, and the FCKeditor+MediaWiki looks to me 
like the best done editor. Even if Wikia is going to build it's own 
WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki using WikiWYG I'm considering making 
helping the FCKeditor+MediaWiki project something for Wiki-Tools to do. 
Other than just the WYSIWYG functions and fixing the bugs like broken 
diff previews, I'm considering attempting to add a Syntax highlighting 
mode for WikiText, CSS, JS, and I suppose a few other languages.

Looking over Wikia's extensions familiarizing myself with what there is 
to code. I notice some extensions I'd love to use, and some using tricks 
I'd never dare use in a thousand years... What are release plans? There 
are a few that would fit will for me, but the code is all GPL licensed. 
And last I remember reading the GPL, it let you keep the code to 
yourself. But if you distributed it you had to freely distribute it to 
everyone. So I don't believe I could just use some of the extensions. On 
that note, it would be nice to tag some of those stable extensions with 
the ExtensionCredits and release them.

-- 
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment 
Project, and Wiki-Tools.com

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