[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

Thu Dec 11 15:15:30 UTC 2008

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> example to see what happens to the {{sandbox}} template. Wikia has
> been working on WYSIWYG for a long time now, and I hope the code that
> is available at
> http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be
> useful to Wikimedia in improving usability.

Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to
which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an
extension, where is the root of the extension?