Thread:Project:Support desk/Intern tasked with a Media wiki projectand I'm lost/reply

Which version of MediaWiki do you have installed?

For current versions I do not know of a fully working WYSIWYG Editor. However, newer versions come with WikiEditor for easy editing. It can be customized as detailed here: Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization.

You can also prefill the editing area with some text. E.g. have a look at this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Au and click the button "Stelle deine Frage". This works with the URL parameters "preload" and "preloadtitle".

Something else you could do is to add a big, broad button on top of empty pages with something like "Create this page" or so on it.