Wayne wrote: << Welcome back! They say changing jobs, moving house etc are among the top 10 stress generators. Add a little PhD work into the mix --- that's more than enough to divert attention! That said, we're most appreciative of the time you've volunteered during the recent Community Council meeting. >>
I only wish we could get things done more quickly! But then I suppose that's always the way, isn't it? :-) << We've been looking at rich text editing for some time -- and have been listening to your call for WYSIWYG wiki editing. Thanks to significant progress in the Mediawiki FCK extension, support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education and OERF appointing a Lead Software Engineer (and dedicated WikiEducator) we are in a position to move this forward. >> I remember at one point we were concerned that FCK would break other Mediawiki extensions we're using. I'm glad to see it seems those issues have been resolved. << We're getting close to moving this into production -- we still need to tweak the installation and optimise/ improve performance of the servers at Athabasca University, but we're making excellent progress. In the mean time -- have a play on the test servers and let us know of any issues. (Note that we will not preserve edits on the test server when we update the test servers with snapshots of the production WikiEducator.) >> So, if I'm doing things correctly, then the editor allows text to be WYSIWYG formatted once it's there, which is great, and it takes whatever's already on the page and makes it available for WYSIWYG editing, which is also great. But it doesn't seem to allow text that's already formatted to be pasted into the editor and retain that formatting. When I try to paste formatted text into it, it brings up a new window specifically calling for plain text. Am I doing something wrong? The reason I want to be able to do this is that there are a lot of textbooks old enough to be in the public domain but much of the content of which is still surprisingly relevant. I'd like to be able to put those old textbooks onto the wiki so that they could collaboratively revised and made useful for today's students. If there are few enough steps to get them from word processor document or HTML to wikicode, then that would speed up these "XXI Texts" up enormously. << Rob Kruhlak and Helena Mill are helping us out with reconfiguring our existing tutorials in preparatation for the move to Rich Text Editing. See: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Rich_text_editor_tutorials >> Well, I guess I can't kvetch about it and then not help. Let me see what I can do with it once I feel sufficiently familiar with the extension. At what sort of timeframe are we looking here? -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://wikieducator.org/steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
