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A while ago I wrote about adding a WYSIWYG editor to Mediawiki and lamented that at the time one problem with the FCKEditor implemention of the WYWISYG was that you had to modify the base Mediwiki code. A royal pain when you have to upgrade. However, the creator of that hack has created a full fledged extension that will integrate a WYSIWYG editor into Mediawiki. In addition to no longer having to modify Mediawiki code, the WYSIWYG extension also can be configured so that you can use real HTML link (<a href=”">) and image (<img srv=”image.jpg”/>) tags. With this option enabled, you don’t have to know wiki-markup to add links or images. One bug I’ve noticed though is things don’t turn out right if you add link tags within any sort of header tag. Things look crazy instead. So until this is fixed if you want to link your headers you’ll need to use wiki-markup. Also if you are editing various namespaces (like the Mediawiki namespace) the WYSIWYG editor shows up, unless you configure it not to. There are detail about this on the page which describes how to install the extension.