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]