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Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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 can be easily plugged into a site: aloha, tinymce, ckeditor, etc.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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…

And none of them work on mobile.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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…

And none of them work on mobile.

I just found Redactor [1] that works fine on Android 4.0, so I redact my comment.

[1] http://imperavi.com/redactor/

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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

Try refreshing... It's a non-optimized version so it doesn't always load right.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

#16

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…

I agree - the purpose of this product is to check if the overall concept is needed. And if so, I will invest in making it a WYSIWYG editor.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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…

Thanks!!!

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

#18

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…

But it's Markdown instead of MediaWiki syntax. Markdown's got a lot of momentum right now, and for good reason.

Re: Show HN: Real-time Wiki

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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…

We really need to get people out of the habit of using WYSIWYG editors.
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