Short history:
With Mediawiki 1.16 / Semantic Mediawiki 1.5.2 / Semantic Forms 0.4.1, you
could open a form, and in the free text area you could enable a rich text
editor, FCKeditor 1.0.1 (a.k.a. CKEditor).
Then there was SMW+, which went to Mediawiki 1.17 / SMW (not sure) / and
WYSIWYG, which I believe is an update to FCKeditor. It had the same
functionality with Semantic Forms, and they improved it quite a bit over
FCKeditor.
The SMW+ is no longer what it used to be (I'll leave it at that, there are
plenty of discussions about it's status changes online), a group has been
updating the WYSIWYG extension to work with later versions of Mediawiki:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WYSIWYG
I've tried it, it's the best so far and very robust compared to FCKeditor.
It has a feature set that appears to greatly exceed that of the roadmap of
the VisualEditor effort:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor
particularly for those of us in a work environment where things like Word
import is valuable. You can see a discussion about this here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.semediawiki.user/14775
Project Idea:
I suggest a project to get the WYSIWYG extension working with the latest
Semantic Forms, in a way that can be supported with little if any effort in
later versions of Semantic Forms. I believe it would be a greatly
appreciated effort for more organizations than just mine.
Thanks, and good luck.
Sal
From: Chenoweth, Stephen V [mailto:cheno...@rose-hulman.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 7:22 AM
To: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [SMW-devel] A list of suggested developments for undergrads to try?
Everyone,
Any ideas for a serious class project, like in PHP, perhaps, that also would
be useful to SMW?
I have 23 talented junior CS majors who built a SMW-based Wiki this fall.
When populated with data, it will show the flow of concepts related to our
courses, etc. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
This same class is next heading into a course in software design. I would
love to give them a design and programming project to do, which could
benefit this particular Wiki they built, but which also would be of interest
to you, the SMW community. I suggested PHP, above, because a key goal of
the design course is for the students to become adept at software patterns
and other OO skills.
As a student project, this should not be something critical in your
development path, but, ideally, if they produced a high quality result, it
is something that might end up rolled into the general product or might
become an extension. In previous classes, we have ended up submitting
results back into SourceForge.
So, do you have specific ideas that come to mind? Or, do you have a "wish
list" already, that they could go look at, and choose for themselves?
We would love to have this class be the test case for an ongoing
relationship.
Your recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Steve Chenoweth
Assoc Prof, CSSE
RHIT
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