On 06.05.2010 13:45, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
on Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 06:01:41 Thomas Schmidt wrote:
Do you think these extensions can help us, or did I miss an interesting one?
UsabilityInitiative is set of extensions, but for us could be interesting WikiEditor . http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsabilityInitiative
When I last tested it, it didn't work with MediaWiki 1.15.
The page says it needs 1.16 (which is currently in beta - but AFAIK already in use on wikipedia, so it can't be that bad ;-)
Also there is WYSIWYG editor: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Official%29 It worked for me on simple texts, but it will fail with complicated structures. It can be turned on and off by the user, so it will not stand in the way for advanced editing. The most important application will be to edit tables.
Yes, FCKeditor has lots of nice features and makes editing easier for wiki newbies (and for tables ;-)
I was using it for some time. Impressions in random order: - very helpful for tables (you'll hate wikitext tables afterwards ;-) - editing inserted templates is slightly more complicated (it shows an icon you have to doubleclick, and then opens an edit dialog) - template help (showing the template:whatever page in the insert template dialog) page is a big advantage - inserting images and links is easy if you don't know the exact name - the dialogs come up with suggestions (matching page/file names) when you start to type.
Unfortunately FCKeditor has some small bugs that break/change content. For example, it removes image captions in some cases and removes the "link=" part from images. https://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/4373 https://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/5214 The problem is that this already happens when you go to to edit mode and save the page without doing any changes.
See also the discussion page for other issues: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:FCKeditor_(Official)
Currently I have disabled FCKeditor until the bugs that change content silently (see above) are fixed.
Could you keep an eye on this and inform the wiki team when the FCKeditor extension is ready to be used on the opensuse wiki in your opinion? Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org