On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:26, David Leeming
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The MediaWiki used by UNESCO does not have the Rich Editor, and to help
> teachers with entering wiki entries, especially the lesson plan template
> which uses tables, we are interested in whether we can install the Rich
> Editor in the UNESCO wiki.  Is this going to be possible or very complicated
> to achieve?

It should be fairly straightforward.  The editor appeared to be
abandoned for a while, but it seems to have picked up a new champion
recently.
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_(Official)
I still don't like this editor because it doesn't "round trip" neatly
with wikitext and so makes messy diffs.  If you are going to have
messy diffs, you might as well use OpenOffice and get more editing
creature comforts.

An alternative would be to stick with the official MediaWiki effort to
improve the edit page.
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsabilityInitiative
That does have the advantage that the Wikimedia Foundation has
sponsored/adopted it, so it has a clear path forward.

I think the most interesting development is work on "sentence level
editing" that seems to provide a very natural way of editing.  Because
of the way it acts as a preprocessor, it may hold a lot promise in
being able to include/edit templates within the text.
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JanPaul123/Sentence-level_editing
Or you can try it here (without even logging in):
  http://janpaulposma.nl/sle/wiki

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