Comments on: Installing a WYSIWYG editor in MediaWiki

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:48:38 +0000

I was disturbed by the seemingly lovely picture at the top of this page (misty.jpg).
Look closely, the horizon is higher on the LHS than the middle. I rotated the image a few degrees using The Gimp and it looked much better.

Certainly a wysiwyg editor for wiki pages is the biggest barrier to the average (l)user using a wiki. Personally, I have no problem with editing wiki markup.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:16:53 +0000

If your server uses Linux, you will ALWAYS have perl installed. You cannot get a server without it. Perl is the basis for many linux tools, so it has become a core requirement for any Linux installation.

By: IE users

IE users — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:47:33 +0000

Media Wiki + FCKeditor is a very good solution if you are not using Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, most companies only has IE6 or IE7 installed. This is where “Media Wiki + FCKeditor” have a great tendency to crash IE. One example is when you include a spanned table anywhere, IE will either crash or gave a Javascript error. Bug report has been filed since 09/10/07 but no fix in sight. There is also quite a bit of open ticket at http://dev.fckeditor.net/report/12. Seem like the “Media Wiki + FCKeditor” project is not the top priority for the FCKeditor team.

By: Nate Engquist

Nate Engquist — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:16:23 +0000

I’ve been researching to find the most stable, easy for users solution for a WYSIWYG interface for this MediaWiki site I’m building. So far the best choice I’ve seen seems to be the official Media Wiki + FCKeditor project that Frederico is discussing above me. I’m using MW 1.10.1 That MoinMoin wiki sounds awesome too though but requires me to start over :( Is MoinMoin that Python based wiki which is supposed to be pretty good?

By: Frederico Caldeira Knabben

Frederico Caldeira Knabben — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:59:29 +0000

We have just started a project called MediaWiki+FCKeditor. Check it out:
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net

I hope you’ll enjoy it.

FredCK
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Frederico Caldeira Knabben
Project Manager, FCKeditor
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http://www.fckeditor.net

By: Soeren

Soeren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:46:58 +0000

Try the MoinMoin wiki. It comes with a built in FCKEditor which produces wiki syntax as output. Works pretty well.

Soeren

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:49:53 +0000

so what was the outcome of this experiment? Was Fck a good choice? Have Fck upgrades since then been better?

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By: Gerard

Gerard — Thu, 04 May 2006 20:40:45 +0000

I’m struggling with the same issue for this site. Instead of FCKeditor or TinyMCE i’ve got my eye on wikiwyg, an editor that sits right between wikicode and wysiwyg.

As it seems it already works pretty well with MediaWiki, except saving pages is still a problem. See more here .