Thanks Wayne and Jim On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Will WYSIWYG editing make a difference? WE think so, and we need your help. > > There is a keen interest among WikiEducators for us to implement WYSIWYG > editing. Over the past two -years we have received numerous requests to > implement Rich Text Editing on WikiEducator. > > We are pleased to announce that the Open Education Resource Foundation will > implement WYSIWYG editing in the near future. We need your help in testing > the environment. > > WE are asking WikiEducators to visit the test installation on the Athabasca > University servers, especially our more experienced users with large complex > pages. Please take note of the following message which appears in RED text > on the test servers. > > NOTE: THIS IS A TEST SITE FOR WIKIEDUCATOR - > YOUR EDITS WILL NOT BE PRESERVED WHEN WE UPDATE THE DATABASE > > This message which appears on every page in the testing environment, will > remind you that your edits will NOT be preserved. > > Go to: http://we1.wikieducator.net/Main_Page (The test server) > Login with your usual WikiEducator username and password > Go to your favourite page in WikiEducator > Click on the normal edit link > You will have the option of editing the normal way. > To test the WYSIWYG editor, click on the "Rich Editor Link" > Let us know what you think > > Note that templates work a little differently in this environment and if you > want to copy and paste text from another environment it is better to use the > standard wiki editor. If you identify any bugs or strange behaviours -- > please report them on this page in the live WikiEducator: > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Editing > > With any new technology, there will be minor teething problems. That's to be > expected. Helping us test the environment will ensure that we minimise these > problems and to assess whether we are ready to go live with Rich Text > Editing. > > Have fun and look forward to reading your feedback. > > Cheers > Wayne and Jim from OERF >
FCK Editor works really well in general (not too many errors, bugs etc) This is what we use in http://socialmediaclassroom.com application wiki. Seems to be really well integrated with Media wiki too. Some may ask you to enable it by default, I can imagine. > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > 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] > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- -- Sam Rose Social Synergy Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://socialsynergyweb.com http://forwardfoundation.org http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/ http://socialmediaclassroom.com http://localfoodsystems.org http://notanemployee.net http://communitywiki.org "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan -- 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]
