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) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
