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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-09-17 21:49, Rob Nickerson
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Daniel wrote:<br>
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<pre>> - Make it easier to edit the wiki. </pre>
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<div>Hi Daniel,<br>
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<div>I agree - the wiki can be hard to edit if you have never
done this before. This is why I requested a visual editor
(that is now used by Wikipedia) to be added. Unfortunately
this requires an update to the version of MediaWiki that we
use so is not a simple case of installing a plug-in. Hopefully
it will be picked up sooner rather than later but in a
volunteer based project patience is essential :-)<br>
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I tried that editor and it's really not worth it. It's not available
on en.wikipedia (shame?) but only as beta testing for other
languages. It looks like a very basic, unhandy rich text editor
(e.g. no drag and drop), with absolutely no possibility to edit
markup (e.g. our ubiquitous {{tag ...}} and with restrictions due to
web programming.<br>
But if you're really fond of such editing, you may copy an OSM page
code, paste it to Wikipedia, edit it there, and copy&paste it
back to OSM.<br>
I personally don't believe much in Web editors, including e-mail.
That should run on a PC.<br>
I'm editing HTML with Kompozer which is not extraordinarily more
complex that a basic editor, but it's more than complete and handy.<br>
If Kompozer does not know some markup, you just pull the curtain,
edit the code and come back to the visual display and editor.<br>
The boon is that the server's files are mapped (mounted) in my
Ubuntu filesystem, as if the server was on my PC, just like editing
local files.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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