The Wikimedia Foundation showed the prototype of the visual Wiki editor

The Wikimedia Foundation launched a prototype visual wiki editor. This is a new editing environment that does not require knowledge of the wiki markup language to participate in wiki projects.



As stated in the prototype announcement , the complexity of wiki markup was identified as a key factor in slowing the growth of the editors community in Wikimedia projects. The foundation wants to simplify the editing process as much as possible so that editors concentrate on working with content, and not on technical difficulties.



To create this open visual editor, the foundation collaborated with the team of Wikia, the largest hoster of wiki projects. The tool is developed not only for Wikimedia projects, but also for everyone who uses MediaWiki . When the editor is ready, it will be included in MediaWiki and will be available to everyone.

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Now you can experiment with a prototype editor at mediawiki.org . So far this is only a demonstration, which is very far from the finished product - for example, there are still no additions of images and tables. Newer versions of the editor will be released about once every two weeks until it is ready.



Personally, I have not seen the need for a visual editor for a long time participating in Wikipedia, but if it helps to attract new members, its introduction will be justified. If a visual editor appeared on Wikipedia, would you write in it?