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    • Pure Wiki with Maximum Usability for Novices?

    Posted by uberjer posts: 2 USA

    Hi all,

    I'm working on building a wiki for the Burning Man community. They already use forums extensively at eplaya.burningman.com, but some of the most important forum threads take forever to read through to get all the key information you need. Some threads are over 30 pages long. I'm building a wiki, as an unofficial project, that will work along side the existing forums that the community can use to consolidate and organize key information that has been discussed at great length in various forum threads.

    My primary objective is the make the wiki as usable as possible for even novice wiki users. That means I need the configure Tiki to maximize use of a WYSIWYG editor.

    What is the best way to configure Tiki to maximize WYSIWYG capabilities? I saw in the v11 demo that there's an HTML demo and wiki syntax demo. I'm assuming that configuring for HTML would maximize WYSIWYG capabilities. Is this correct? What are the cons to this approach, if any?

    Thanks in advance for any input ya'll might be able to provide. I'm pretty excited about this project. :-)

    Jeremy

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    Posted by Torsten Fabricius posts: 1563 Germany

    Hello Jeremy,

    welcome in the Tiki community.

    Personally I do not like WYSiWYG very much and it turns out, that WYSIWYG always is kind of problematic, when used in the web.

    I very much prefer the WikiSyntax, as this is quite stable and easy to learn ... especially in Tiki there are so many cool code snippets called WikiPlugins.

    On the other hand you are right, that novice (wiki) users might tend to prefer WYSIWYG and have no interest in any syntax at all.

    I suggest to configere the Tiki in a way, that WYSIWYG is saved as WikiSyntax and WikiSyntax is parsed in WYSIWYG mode.

    If You think about your users would be open to live with something like BBCode, then your users should be fine with WikiSyntax aswell, but you have to deside.

    Just write back for more questions,
    cheers
    Torsten

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    Posted by uberjer posts: 2 USA

    Thanks Torsten, I'll consider that suggestion. I'd like to do some testing on the full HTML WYSIWYG config. I have a v11 server setup to do some testing. I'm trying to figure out how to configure it exactly like this demo site: http://demo.tiki.org/wysiwyg-html-11x/tiki-index.php

    Anyone have any idea what the exact settings are for the demo site? I can't seem to get my server to match.

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    Posted by Arild Berg posts: 222 Norway

    Hi Jeremy,

    Verify that you have turned off: "Use Wiki syntax in WYSIWYG".

    This is on by default, and will store the pages in wiki format instead of html. When you deselect it, pages are stored in html, and you will get the "full" wysiwyg menu.

    I agree that this is a bit awkward.

    Arild

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