02/17/2011
We've been using a WIKI (MediaWiki) here for a while an while all the programmers (true geeks) LOVE IT for everything, our PMs don't really love it. Their complaints come down to a few (pretty simple things):
- Wiki code is hard to read on the screen and a WYSIWYG editor would be much better.
- Image and document uploads are hard
So, in an effort to make it more user friendly I've installed a WYSIWYG editor in our internal wiki, and we're *almost* happy.
First I installed FCKeditor with MediaWiki. I know it's outdated and I should use CKeditor, but it doesn't appear to be compatible, and my programmers don't have enough cycles right now to hack it together.
Installation was pretty simple, but I couldn't figure out how to upload images or documents. After a couple of hours of hunting I came to the conclusion that the people who bundled FCKeditor for Media Wiki simply don't like WYSIWYG editors and they removed the code that uploads images. You can put it back in by following these simple steps:
- Download and install FCKeditor for MediaWiki
- Download the latest nightly build of FCKeditor (NOT the Media Wiki Build)
- Find the folder: fckeditor/filemanager/connections and copy it into your MediaWiki FCKeditor installation (someone removed it for some Silly Silly reason)
Depending on your installation, you might have some to set your config prefs, but at this point you should have a working image uploader inside of FCKeditor MediaWiki!
Unfortunately, documents aren't as easy. I've pretty much thrown in the towel. My guess is someone turned it off in PHP somewhere in the build.