Hi Steve, Welcome back! They say changing jobs, moving house etc are among the top 10 stress generators. Add a little PhD work into the mix --- that's more than enough to divert attention! That said, we're most appreciative of the time you've volunteered during the recent Community Council meeting.
We've been looking at rich text editing for some time -- and have been listening to your call for WYSIWYG wiki editing. Thanks to significant progress in the Mediawiki FCK extension, support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education and OERF appointing a Lead Software Engineer (and dedicated WikiEducator) we are in a position to move this forward. We're getting close to moving this into production -- we still need to tweak the installation and optimise/ improve performance of the servers at Athabasca University, but we're making excellent progress. In the mean time -- have a play on the test servers and let us know of any issues. (Note that we will not preserve edits on the test server when we update the test servers with snapshots of the production WikiEducator.) Rob Kruhlak and Helena Mill are helping us out with reconfiguring our existing tutorials in preparatation for the move to Rich Text Editing. See: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Rich_text_editor_tutorials We've scoped the changes which will be necessary over here: http://wikieducator.org/Help:Rich_text_editor_tutorials Any time you may have in helping with editing of these tutorials is always well received. Cheers Wayne 2009/11/1 Steve Foerster <[email protected]> > > Randy wrote: > > > That barrier is set to fall very soon, with Jim Tittsler's work, > > community input and NZ Ministry of Education funding. > > > We have a rich text editing beta up at:http://en1.wikieducator.net > > > You can log into it, using your WE settings as usual. > > Whoa, I didn't know that. I suppose this is what I get for not > staying in the loop! > > > > Try it out! - but make sure that you don't 'leave content' there, > > - just copy it over to your regular wiki page. > > It seems to work really well! That's so exciting! Thanks much to all > who are making this possible! > > > > Wayne can advise of the timing for release. > > Wayne, when do we plan for this to go into production? Or, if there's > a particular testing sequence that needs to be exhausted, how can > interested people help out? Count me in! > > Thanks, > > -=Steve=- > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
