On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Jan Paul Posma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As this is my first post to the mailing list, let me introduce myself > shortly. My name is Jan Paul Posma, and I'm a 20 year old Computer Science > student from the Netherlands. I was introduced to MediaWiki by Roan Kattouw, > contractor for the Usability Initiative, who also happens to be a friend of > mine. :-) > > The reason for mailing to the list is the research I'll be conducting this > year: building a new editor for MediaWiki. Now I guess this has been > discussed over and over again, but this is a bit different. Instead of > building a true WYSIWYG editor, I'm proposing to build an editor that's based > on adding extra markup to the original, rendered page. This extra markup > provides the ability to edit these segments. With this approach, it's > possible to slowly enable editing for different elements. First, we can > enable editing for "simple" sentences (thus the title sentence-level > editing). "Simple" in this context means: without most wikicodes. I.e. only > links are allowed, and perhaps bold and italic. This editor can be extended > step by step to include other elements, such as references, images, > templates, lists, tables, etc. > > The last few weeks I've worked on some prototypes to illustrate this idea. > You can find the most advanced prototype here: > http://janpaulposma.nl/sle/prototype/prototype3.html > The full project proposal and prototypes can be found here: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JanPaul123/Sentence-level_editing > > Right now I'm not looking for anything in specific, just whether or not you > think this is a good idea, technically feasible, etc. If you have suggestions > of any kind I'll be happy to hear them!
This is a really nice design. I'll be interested to see how it handles all the ugly edge cases that Wikitext makes possible ;-) I do notice that the "Preview" button for sentence-level editing doesn't quite work (it shows the old text). There's some stuff missing, but I assume that this is because it's not finished yet. Either way, this is a really awesome first step towards a more friendly editing interface. Thanks for sharing. -- Andrew Garrett http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
