One of the reasons is that it is rather inefficient. Not more than VisualEditor, but still. There definitely would be people who would want to disable it. It's also imperfect. It makes mistakes in highly complex pages.
Something similar was in in the works for WikiEditor some 4 years ago, but it was judged that it would be better to not continue investing WMF resources into it. I think it could probably be made into an extensions quite easily. If you can find a volunteer willing to do that. It's not much more complex than the CodeEditor extension. DJ On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Diana K. C <diana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't get it why this is not mencioned too much in major projects using > MediaWiki, I find wiki code nice ans easy but the highlight would improve > the readbility even for those used to code. +1 for this feature become a > core feature. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arcane 21" <arc...@live.com> > To: <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 2:19 AM > > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? > > >> I agree, Gryllida, it would be a nice core feature. >> >>> From: gryll...@fastmail.fm >>> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:10:45 +1000 >>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? >>> >>> Diana and Arcane, >>> >>> The script you linked is nice without extra frills. Thank you. (WikEd >>> gadget also highlights wiki markup, but it breaks some other things. It is >>> available on all Wikimedia projects.) >>> >>> I would ideally like to see the markup highlight functionality in the >>> core of MediaWiki some day, which may or may not have been considered >>> before. >>> >>> On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, at 14:35, Diana K. C wrote: >>> > Wow this is great! Thanks a lot! >>> > >>> > >>> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arcane 21" <arc...@live.com> >>> > To: <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 1:02 AM >>> > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? >>> > >>> > >>> > > This should work: >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter >>> > > >>> > >> From: diana...@gmail.com >>> > >> To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > >> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 00:16:29 -0300 >>> > >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? >>> > >> >>> > >> Thanks for your quick response Arcane 21, >>> > >> >>> > >> I'm looking for a extension that syntax highlight the wiki markup, > >>> > >> >> i.g. >>> > >> <ref>, '''bold''', ''italics'' etc not for programming languages. >>> > >> >>> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Arcane 21" >>> > >> <arc...@live.com> >>> > >> To: <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> > >> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 11:22 PM >>> > >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi >>> > >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor >>> > >> > >>> > >> > There should be a gadget on MediaWiki.org you could import with > >>> > >> > >> > this >>> > >> > sort >>> > >> > of functionality as well. >>> > >> > >>> > >> >> From: diana...@gmail.com >>> > >> >> To: MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> > >> >> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 22:42:53 -0300 >>> > >> >> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax highlight for wikitext? >>> > >> >> >>> > >> >> Hello, >>> > >> >> >>> > >> >> Is there an extensions to enable some syntax highligh in the very >>> > >> >> article >>> > >> >> editor?! I'm not talking about hilite wikitext in demos but real >>> > >> >> hilite >>> > >> >> when entering article content. >>> > >> >> >>> > >> >> Thanks, >>> > >> >> >>> > >> >> Diana >>> >>> Gryllida. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
