Brion Vibber <brion <at> pobox.com> writes: > Note that for Wikipedia that's not just going to affect experienced editors
Very true! I think we have more inexperienced editors, and that's been a product design focus for us for a while so I tend to make assumptions based on that. > Do you mean that it doesn't yet provide any way to see and edit the contents > of templates and tag hook extensions, but that infrastructure has come in >which will make it possible in the future? Yep, that's my understanding. We have added custom editing tools for a few home grown Wikia things but it's painful and requires modifications to the Parser and I don't recommend looking at that code. :) One of the internal goals was to make that easier and my understanding is it's been done. I don't know the details yet, we are getting a full presentation on it next week by the developer. For templates, the proposal just showed them expanded/rendered in the page but read-only and I'm not sure if that's going to be in the product or not. For tags, there are hooks that allow the extension developer to put up a modal edit/design mode, and since those are just simple HTML templates and ajax calls, it's a lot easier to develop. An example of that is here (in the old editor, done the old way with an ugly parser hack). http://kirkburn.wikia.com/index.php?title=PollTest8&action=edit _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
