Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-11-11 Thread André Pirard
On 2013-09-29 01:40, Clifford Snow wrote : I wonder if anyone actually uses LibreOffice for wiki pages [visual edition]. Learning wiki markdown takes a while. I can certainly see the desire to have a visual editor. A visual editor could lower the bar for contributions.

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-28 Thread André Pirard
On 2013-09-27 13:51, André Pirard wrote : On 2013-09-17 21:49, Rob Nickerson wrote : Daniel wrote: - Make it easier to edit the wiki. Hi Daniel, 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

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-28 Thread André Pirard
Ouch, from LibreOffice menu and help, it looks like it's only able to store a wiki file, not to read and edit it. Pretty much useless. André. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.comwrote: Only gotcha, I think: recent Ubuntu comes with a desktop called Unity which is very resource consuming, dancing but not singing, and is really crawling on VB. There are solutions to tame

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 2:56 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.comwrote: Ouch, from LibreOffice menu and help, it looks like it's only able to store a wiki file, not to read and edit it. Pretty much useless. Not sure - on my version of LibreOffice, I can connect to wiki.openoffice.org

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-28 Thread André Pirard
On 2013-09-29 00:50, Clifford Snow wrote : On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM, André Pirard a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com mailto:a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Only gotcha, I think: recent Ubuntu comes with a desktop called Unity which is very resource consuming, dancing but not singing,

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-27 Thread André Pirard
On 2013-09-17 21:49, Rob Nickerson wrote : Daniel wrote: - Make it easier to edit the wiki. Hi Daniel, 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

Re: [Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-22 Thread Christopher Hoess
Rob, I'm not sure I'd rush into it, anyway. Even granted that en.wikipedia probably uses more complex markup and templates than we do, uptake of the visual editor (among new editors and otherwise) doesn't seem very high, and no one outside of the WMF seems very impressed by its current state of

[Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Nickerson
Quote: I'm not sure I'd rush into it, anyway. Even granted that en.wikipedia probably uses more complex markup and templates than we do, uptake of the visual editor (among new editors and otherwise) doesn't seem very high, and no one outside of the WMF seems very impressed by its current state of

[Tagging] Visual editor for the wiki (WAS: How to overcome lack of consensus)

2013-09-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Daniel wrote: - Make it easier to edit the wiki. Hi Daniel, 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