On 11-05-02 12:04 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > Can someone please tell me, in precise technical terms, what is wrong > with Wikia's WYSIWYG editor and why we can't use it? > > I have heard that it has bugs in it, but I have not been told exactly > what these bugs are, why they are more relevant for Wikimedia than for > Wikia, or why they can't be fixed. > > Years ago, we talked dismissively about WYSIWYG. We discussed the > features that a WYSIWYG editor would have to have, pointing out how > difficult they would be to implement and how we didn't have the > manpower to pull off such a thing. Now that Wikia has gone ahead and > implemented those exact features, what is the problem? > > -- Tim Starling I wouldn't say more relevant for Wikimedia than Wikia, but more relevant for encyclopedia that care about their wikitext than a social wiki run by newbies who don't even know what wikitext or a template is.
Most of the wiki I was involved in on Wikia all have the RTE disabled because the RTE made additional unwanted changes when editing destroying diffs, in one case destroyed a bulleted list item every time the page was edited, and also increased the number of new users making bad edits like inserting an image in the middle of a run of text because on their monitor in the WYSIWYG editor it was aligned where they thought it should be. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
