Indeed there is such need. In fact MediaWiki template language itself
requires an IDE: WikEd is not enough.

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Yury Katkov, WikiVote



On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Having some fun with the scribunto possibilities, I also found some
> drawbacks in the UX. Having to scroll to switching between the code
> panel and the debug panel is prohibitive. Making a better web IDE is
> possible, take a look at [1] for example: at one glance you have the
> documentation (exercises specifications in the case of the previous
> site), the code doing the fine job, the code testing it, the
> debug/result console.
>
> Now one may prefer to use it's favorite editor/IDE anyway, in which case
> one may wonder how to proceed to get and install scribunto librairies in
> order to test the code on the local box. That should be documented
> somewhere, as well as how to make a git/mediawiki bridge to ease the
> whole process. If such a documentation already exists, please point me
> there.
>
> Ok, that was my "thought of the day". :P
>
> [1] http://www.codingame.com/cg/
>
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