Thread:Extension talk:WYSIWYG/The VisualEditor extension looks promising

Hi guys,

While editing the main-page today, I noticed that mediawiki now offers editing via their "VisualEditor" extension.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor

Has anyone given it a solid test drive? Is it comparing well with this extension? From my brief edit, it looked promising.

I had been a fan of this ckeditor extension (and previous extensions making using of the older fckeditor), as it did a good job of filling the void in mediawiki's lack of an in-built wysiwyg. But the level of bugginess has dampened my enthusiasm over time, no doubt due to the team behind this extension going bankrupt and leaving us users on our own to fix our issues with it.

A few things excite me about this VisualEditor extension though:


 * The mediawiki team are in charge of it
 * (ie, they're taking wysiwyg seriously, that's cool)
 * They feel confident enough about it to start making use of it on their live systems.
 * (although it is only turned on if you enable it in your preferences, in the "beta" section)

Well, I'll be interested in how this pans out... Wishing them all the best with it.