Show HN: Real-time Wiki

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 9:48 PM UTC

Post by tadfisher » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

edtechdev wrote: post #12

This would be very popular indeed if a WYSIWYG editor was used instead of a markup language. There has been study after study showing how the wiki markup syntax is a hurdle to participation on wikipedia, to the point where wikipedia is now finally, after 12 years, working on a wysiwyg editor: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jimmy-wales-on-new-editing-... There are so many free and open source wysiwyg editors that ca…

Post by ronreiter » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #9

Got past over-quota issue and gave google permissions, but Chrome OSX shows nothing when you login. JS console shows: Uncaught ReferenceError: goog is not defined socket.js:43 Uncaught Error: Load timeout for modules: text!templates/context_menu.html require.js:26 http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#timeout

Post by ronreiter » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

Skoofoo wrote: post #10

Very neat! I have thought quite a bit about how to make wikis easier to work with, but I don't know if I'll need to anymore because you pretty much nailed it! Real-time markdown editing is a great idea. A few things: * Making an ordered list right after an unordered one and vice versa doesn't render properly. * New pages always become children of the first page, and I don't know how to turn them into root pages or ma…

Post by alexchamberlain » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

edtechdev wrote: post #12

This would be very popular indeed if a WYSIWYG editor was used instead of a markup language. There has been study after study showing how the wiki markup syntax is a hurdle to participation on wikipedia, to the point where wikipedia is now finally, after 12 years, working on a wysiwyg editor: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jimmy-wales-on-new-editing-... There are so many free and open source wysiwyg editors that ca…