On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:53 PM, William Le Ferrand <[email protected]> wrote: > I've started to develop a simple wysiwyg editor that could be useful to > wikipedia. Basically the editor gets the wiki code from wikipedai and builds > the html on client side. Then you can edit the html code as you can imagine > and when you are done another script converts the html back to wiki code.
Wiki syntax is too complicated for this to be feasible. It also doesn't have a one-to-one mapping to HTML. It's been tried before, but what you end up with is that it doesn't round-trip: if you open in the WYSIWYG editor and save with no changes, it saves totally different wikicode, confusing anyone who's using actual wikitext. The only feasible solutions are to either drastically simplify wikitext, or switch to WYSIWYG only, and those would both be very disruptive. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
