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What is the best WYSIWYG editor for Mediawiki? There seem to be many around, but not particularly user-friendly (especially for things like tables). Anyone know what the current best offering is?
We use the wiki primarily for documentation (internal) and less for actual encycopedia-type operations (i.e referencing and citing less important). But I want it to be a user-friendly as possible - so not having users learn wikimedia markup (wikitext) would be great...
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Dojo Rich Text Editor The Dojo rich text editor supports inline editing as well as WYSIWYG WYMeditor: WYMeditor is an open source web-based WYSIWYM editor. MindTouch Deki Wiki XHTML wiki with WYSIWYG. WIKIWIG --A lite WYSIWYG Wiki based on HtmlArea3. GPL, developed in PHP, so lite and easy to set up.
The WYSIWYG editor could also be limited to reflect only existing wiki markup, with its democratically decided simplicities and compromises for complexities — adding nothing to the wiki markup, only providing a more visually straightforward means of changing the markup....
For a list of existing extensions providing some degree of WYSIWYG support, see Category:WYSIWYG extensions. In 2009, there was no available 'ready-to-go' package for incorporating full WYSIWYG into the MediaWiki software.
See the talk page for a possible discussion on this. Regular Wiki markup is a simple way of formatting a wiki page but many would-be users of MediaWiki are put off by any coding of any sort. These users are used to publishing and editing in a more visually straightforward WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get) environment.
VisualEditor by a long shot. (Here's a video of table editing.) It's challenging to install though.
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