On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> On 25 October 2014 15:09, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > [...] > > > https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8 > > Quite apart from other issues, the author falls at the first hurdle; > he fails to say what an IDE is. > > ... so, what is it?? /me searches.... ah, Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment Annotated image: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/267990999/Integrated_Development_Environment_IDE_software_for_embedded.jpg We already have many of these components (requested in the medium post, or in the image), as needed for editing an article: * Syntax highlighter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter> (gadget) * Ajax preview (A few options. I've used user:js/ajaxPreview <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Js/ajaxPreview> for many years and love it and strongly recommend it) * Split preview (side-by-side) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts#Previewing> (although that doesn't have simultaneous scrolling, which would be fancy/nice. Also the width-drag doesn't seem to work. It probably just needs an update after 6 years..) * integrating the diff viewer with the syntax highlighted source text, sounds incredibly confusing, so let's not do that. Besides, we have ajax Show Changes. * We have a Section-edit link, for jumping to the right section * We have a Template/Page transclusion list, under the edit-source textarea We don't have HTML preview, which might be interesting. Surely it's possible to whip up a userscript for it, if anyone would actually find it massively useful. (Or, we can just leave the browser's own Web Developer bar open to see the HTML. ctrl-f is our friend.) It would be nice to get some of those userscripts turned into (global)Gadgets and/or Extensions, but they're all usable. The only thing they (and all our fancy optional extras) really need, is better visibility. There are a number of ideas to do that, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences and (especially the bottom of) it's talkpage. More ideas appreciated. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
