Just Give Me a WYSIWYG Wiki!
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As explained in an earlier post, as of today, no fully functional and bug free WYSIWYG editor exists for MediaWiki and all the other wikis that support a WYSIWYG are not developed with PHP or do not utilize the MySQL database.
In my opinion, if you are looking for a PHP wiki that utilizes a database like MySQL, Mediawiki is your most feature-rich and mature wiki from the bunch and I’d go with that.
Development to integrate MediaWiki with a visual editor has started using both FCKeditor and TinyMCE. The FCKeditor solution is less developed for MediaWiki than the TinyMCE solution which functions better but remains buggy.
Both FCKeditor and TinyMCE output regular HTML not wiki syntax or wiki markup. This is something worth noting.
Here are your Three WYSIWYG options for WikiMedia (as of Jan 2008):
http://www.fckeditor.net/
A - FCKeditor (by Mafs):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28by…
B - FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28by…
2) TinyMCE (the best wysiwyg for now)
TinyMCE for MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TinyMCE_MW
I’d like to leave you with this last thought: At this point in time, wikis are more concerned with their content, the simple formatting and the availability of the text along with the ease of editing. If your website project requires visually appealing pages that will be edited by novice users then what you need is not a wiki. There are a few very powerful document or content management solutions out there that will work for you. I will discuss these in a future article. Stay tuned.
