Thread:Extension talk:InlineEditor/Is there any reason why we shouldn't install this extension?/reply (2)

Hi Jan Paul,

Thank you for getting back with me. I've read your thesis, as well as some of the other documentation on your extension that I've been able to locate (basically the stuff listed here: http://portlandwiki.org/User:WikiMaster/WYSIWYG#InlineEditor). As such, I think I understand that InlineEditor isn't necessarily ready for prime time yet.

That in mind, a small civic wiki like PortlandWiki may find it necessary to move at a bit faster pace than what Wikimedia Foundation might commit to. Raw wikitext is painful to most of our would-be contributors, and most of them won't put up with it. The various WYSIWYG editors we've tested tend to break the wikitext on PortlandWiki's pages immediately. Your InlineEditor seems to work quite a bit better.

Even if your extension isn't production ready, is it possible to restrict use of InlineEditor from some of the more complex pages? If not, will the potential parser issues create some kind of permanent damage I'm not thinking about (keeping in mind that I'm not a real coder)? Or will parser errors result in possibly a mangled article, but nothing more damaging than that?

Thanks for your patience with me!