{"id":172,"date":"2005-08-01T22:02:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T02:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/08\/01\/wikis-need-wysiwyg-editors-ward-cunnin"},"modified":"2005-08-01T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T02:02:32","slug":"wikis-need-wysiwyg-editors-ward-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/08\/01\/wikis-need-wysiwyg-editors-ward-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wikis need WYSIWYG editors&#8221; &#8212; Ward Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a987'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Wikimedia_Quarto\/1\/En-5\">recent interview<\/a> (last fall), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ward%20Cunningham\">Ward Cunningham<\/a><br \/>\nhighlighted the most pressing unresolved problem with wikis : the lack<br \/>\nof a simple and familiar editing interface for most users.&nbsp; Asked<br \/>\nwhat one thing he would change about Wikipedia, he said immediately, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikimedia_Quarto\/Extras\/1#One_thing\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;d put a WYSIWYG editor in front of it.<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, no progress has been made towards changing the default editor for Wikipedia or for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\">MediaWiki<\/a> in general.&nbsp; But discussions today with non-MediaWiki developers at the start of Wikimania&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimania.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Hacking_Days\">Hacking Days<\/a><br \/>\nsuggest that modern web-based WYSIWYG editors are becoming fairly<br \/>\nmature and fast, and are certainly reasonable as interface options, if<br \/>\nnot as the default option, for wiki users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview (last fall), Ward Cunningham highlighted the most pressing unresolved problem with wikis : the lack of a simple and familiar editing interface for most users.&nbsp; Asked what one thing he would change about Wikipedia, he said immediately, &#8220;I&#8217;d put a WYSIWYG editor in front of it.&#8220; Since then, no progress has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-2M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}