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AskHn:Why hasn't a text-to-mediawiki converter been created?

2 points by wturner 17y ago

I'm wondering if there is some deep technical reason why a text-to-mediawiki markup converter hasn't been created...yet. Or a conversion extension that sits "inside" mediawiki so to speak and lets users type using a WYSIWYG window and then does the conversion after the user hits submit. I was watching a video at the singularity university website and the the person giving the talk challenged anyone to create this in passing. I know there is a mediawiki "usability" initiative but the editor is still a stretch away from people using microsoft word or other similar programs they are accustomed to

duskwuff 17y ago
It's been considered, but nobody has come up with a really good implementation which doesn't mangle the markup on existing pages when you hit "edit". There is a FCKEditor extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Official%29 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Officia...), but I'm not sure if it fully satisfies this requirement yet.