Is it any desktop wysiwyg editors for mediawiki / wiki available?

Question

Hello.

Mediawiki is very good, but for programming tasks editing it via web is not very handy since wysiwyg is very limited, pressing 'edit' + 'publish' on any small change and waiting for page loading kins of annoying. I have seen alot of desktop wikis (personal wikis) that are free from such problems. The best example is a 'wikidpad' that has a usage patter of 'focus, edit wiki in-place, minimize'. This is very handy for programming work where you need to make small changes to wiki and documentation during development, and documentation is written much more often than readed :). But all such desktops wikies are personal - they don't have any wiki sharing (or marginally limited support for it).

So, maybe it's a desktop application exists that can connect to mediawiki and allows to view and edit it via a rich wysiwyg editor? Any hints are welcomed.

Answer 1

It's not quite WYSIWYG, but wikEd adds a few more editor options in the form of a Greasemonkey script, so you can use it for any MediaWiki instance, even if you're not an admin:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12529

Also, see this page for a list of WYSIWYG options, some of which you can install on your instance of MediaWiki if you have full control over it:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor

The TinyMCE patch might be what you're looking for,

Answer 2

Not really. For an explanation and a list of imperfect options, read this page.

However, you might not need a WYSIWYG editor in order to make many quick edits to a wiki. It is possible to download the wikitext of a page, edit it locally, and submit the changes. There are scripts (called bots) available which do this. One example is pywikipediabot's "editarticle.py" script. You might also want to take a look at AutoWikiBrowser.

Answer 3

There is this Emacs mode which I guess qualifies as a desktop app. but it seems not to be in development anymore. I don't think it is what you want.

Answer 4

We use the FCK Editor. It is not perfect (changing between that and the standard editor can lead to formating changes) but it does enable copy and pasting from Office documentation. This is particularly useful with tables, which MediaWiki makes such a drama out of.