2009/9/15 Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>:
> Hi!
> I've read that usability is important for MediaWiki. Why don't integrate
> wikitext syntax highlighting then?
We're planning to do exactly that in our third release (Citron). Right
now, we're working on bugfixing and deploying our second release
(Babaco).

> That will greatly improve editing of
> the pages. There is Extension:WikEd which has most of the work
> implemented already.
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WikEd_screenshot.png
Yeah, we knew about wikEd, and we'll definitely be looking at it.

> I know that it should be possible to install the extension separately.
> But I remember that important extensions are sometimes integrated into
> MediaWiki.
> There's also FCKeditor, but it cannot perform diffs, and visual editing
> is not always desirable (non-technical users like it, but I personally
> prefer to edit wikitext).
>
There's still quite a few issues with FCKeditor, and as far as I know
it's been decided that the usability project is not gonna cover
WYSIWYG; I'm not entirely sure of the official stance here, you'd have
to ask Naoko.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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