Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: wiki WYSIWYG editor

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> Yes, the last we used was the FCKEditor and there were problems with keeping
> wiki page edits stable enough to post.[1] I had used it quite a bit for
> updating wiki pages (especially in the marketing section) and found that if
> you created long wiki pages that the editor would at time "hiccup" and lose
> data (sometimes all the page) -- I tried to keep the pages in more short
> fragmented sections to avoid this.

FCKEditor messed up quite a lot actually.  Back in the "good old days"
with the OOo Wiki, there were a lot of complaints about the editor
messing up pages - not breaking them so much, but messing up the
history/view changes because it would reformat the whole page for a
small change... contributors couldn't see what was actually changed
after an edit.


> > There is a "new" WYSIWYG editor for MW 1.16/1.17
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WYSIWYG which should work...
> > in theory.  Have you looked at this extension?
>
> Thanks for the link, I tried it out and it is nice. I guess we will only
> know if it works without any problems if it is installed. It will help those
> of us who have time to update/tidy up the wiki. It will also help new
> contributors who want to jump in and help out.

It's not (yet) tagged as valid for MW1.18, but I've expect it to be
updated (or even just work).

I haven't tested the extension, but things to look out for:
 - does it "helpfully" reformat a Wiki page for small edits? This
shows up on pages that are created edited in the traditional mode and
then edited using the WYSIWYG editor
 - will it work with extensions such as EasyHacks, ParserFunctions,
SyntaxHighlight, Widgets etc. Extensions that do a little magic like
ParserFunctions are particularly fragile in WYSIWYG editors (in my
experience)?
 - does it handle Templates in a logical manner?

Probably others, but those are the ones off the top of my head that
caused me grief in the past with the old FCKEditor based extensions
(there have been a couple over the years).


Clayton

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