As reported over on MatthewSim.com, a MediaWiki WYSIWYG editor is coming soon! This means that editing RichmondWiki will be even easier. If you can type in a Word document, you will be able to edit a wiki article. Editors will be able to toggle back and forth between WYSIWYG and normal wikitext modes.
MediaWiki WYSIWYG Interface (Click to Expand)
The new editor will integrate as a MW extension. More details (via):
It isn’t perfect, but they’re making great progress. You can try it yourself on their test Wiki. It’s built on the open source FCKeditor, but they’ve taught it to emit Wiki markup instead of HTML. Impressively, you can toggle between WYSIWYG and Wiki markup while editing. Efforts to build a rich editor has been stymied for years by MediaWiki’s complicated markup, which includes templates and other “active” elements. They’ve taken the reasonable strategy of focusing on the 5% of markup that’s used 95% of the time and just isolating and preserving markup it can’t yet handle.
This could be associated with the usability initiative that the Wikimedia Foundation was hiring for this past winter.
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