On 11-01-17 05:47 AM, Panos Louridas wrote: > Hi, > > At the Greek Research and Education Network (GRNET) we look at the > possibility of contributing to the development of WYSIWYG editor support in > Wikipedia. We understand that considerable work has already taken place in > the area, e.g.: > > * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIFTW > * https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/RTE/ > * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JanPaul123/Sentence-level_editing > > We therefore think that it will not be productive to reinvent the wheel over > here. > > Our contribution can take the form of providing developers that will devote > part (or all) of their time for some months in 2011. We welcome any comments > and suggestions on how we could push this forward, and in particular: > > * Specific tasks / components that need to be designed, developed, optimized, > etc., and estimates of effort and timeframe. > > Best Regards, > > Panos Louridas > GRNET Making Wikia's RTE something you can easily install on a normal MediaWiki install would be a good start, and convincing them to try making the effort they said they planned to make to the RTE in a way that can be shared with and benefit from yours and the community's effort. As for improvement, I'm sure you could come up with some ideas from the plethora of complaints scattered around Wikia about issues with the RTE if you can organize them together.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
