Stand alone editor for editing wiki text on windows/explorer

Question

I am looking for stand alone program than have good easy editor for creating wiki context and then upload to internal mediawiki installation.

We have private mediawiki. Many user are new to wiki and get confused by syntax, but want to use it. Little toolbar on wikipage editor is not good enough. I found MSWord converted here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus

But not good enough. I think a nice stand alone program with ability to edit tables and such graphically would really be good. Do you know anything like that for windows?

Everything seem to be for FireFox, but we have to use Explorer internally.

Answer 1

You can try OpenOffice, it does a decent job of exporting to Mediawiki format.

From Wikipedia:

OpenOffice 3: Text documents opened in all versions of OpenOffice.org 3 can be exported natively into MediaWiki format, via the File -> Export -> File Format drop down menu. Since OpenOffice.org can open all Microsoft Office files, one can open files created in Microsoft Word and export them to the MediaWiki format.

Answer 2

You could also just use WYSIWYG editor, like FCK. Incidentally, you can also open this in a separate browser window (which, from your question, you might be looking for).