Wysiwyg Wikis

[ThatAdamGuy]

I've discovered some promising Wiki hosting services, but since I'm already paying for my TCH account and already have my own domains, I'd much rather host a wiki on my own!

 

The problem I'm having is that I've not yet been able to find any wikis that offer wysiwyg editing, and -- since I'll be having some non-geek friends participate that don't know and don't want to learn wiki markup -- wysiwyg capabilities are important!

 

I've tried googling for this info (obviously!), but have come up empty handed.

 

Any suggestions?

[TCH-Dick]

Search Google for Wiki Editor

[borfast]

http://www.google.com/search?q=wysiwyg+wiki

This may also be of interest:

HTMLArea

[LisaJill]

I don't know what features you need for WYSIWG. But MediaWiki (which I'm using to run ExpressionEngine Wiki) has wiki WYSIWG as well as an extension for firefox and a bookmarklet that both make posting very easy. It' the wiki they use for Wikipedia (which is why it was built, I believe) so it is pretty robust. =)

[ThatAdamGuy]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

 

I am aware of HTML Area, but wasn't sure how I'd integrate that with a standard wiki package.

 

Also, Lisa, regarding MediaWiki... I looked on their site, but couldn't see anything about wysiwyg. Furthermore, when I played in the Wikipedia sandbox, I didn't see any wysiwyg controls. Also, when I edited a page in eewiki, I saw formatting control buttons, but no wyswig views.

 

What am I missing here? Frankly, I'm looking for something like EditMe or SeedWiki but hosted on my server here.

[LisaJill]

I thought you meant wysiwg control that are specific to the wiki environment. If you mean like dreamweaver type stuff. I don't know of any other than those external ones you integrate.

[ThatAdamGuy]

I appreciate the reply, Lisa (you rock... always very helpful!)

 

I'm puzzled, though, why there seem to be no non-hosted wysiwyg wiki engines available. I'd think that many folks would appreciate the convenience of such stuff, and I can't imagine this being that challenging to implement technically.

[LisaJill]

did you look here?

[ThatAdamGuy]

Yep, sure did. No dice. One of the wikis runs on Windows (on an individual's machine), another is kaput, and so on.

 

Thanks for the pointer, though!

[LisaJill]

I checked out the WackoWiki with WikiEdit link from there, it seemed about as close as you're going to get at the moment.