Help talk:Rich text editor

Beta testing on specific wikis
The article says: "This extension is currently under development - it may be in beta testing on specific wikis, but may not be widely available for some time."

On which wikis is it being tested? --Timeshifter 17:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Per below, terminator.wikia is one :) Kirkburn (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * thanks. --Timeshifter 21:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Asterisks
See my comment on our local wiki: Help_talk:New_editor &mdash; Jeiara 20:44, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for flagging it up: I'll pass it on. Kirkburn (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Source code
You seem to have added some neat enhancements to http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/. Are you planning on releasing the source code for this? If so, can we get a link? Thanks.


 * I found it: http://code.google.com/p/wikia/source/browse/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/Wysiwyg/.  Thanks.

MediaWiki+FCKeditor
I believe MediaWiki+FCKeditor is what is being beta tested:
 * http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net

It has a sandbox:
 * http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Sandbox

Its sandbox may be using a later version at times than the version tested here at Wikia. I don't know.

Its talk page seems to have more testing and discussion going on:
 * http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Talk:Sandbox --Timeshifter 02:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Aye, what we have been working on is based on that, but with a lot of extra development (some Wikia-specific, but not all). As far as I know, a bunch of the stuff should get imported back, both for the basic fckeditor and MediaWiki itself. Kirkburn (talk) 17:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Thanks for clarifying that. I will also check out the version of the new editor here. --Timeshifter 06:20, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I found some info on the collaboration:
 * mw:Extension:FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia) --Timeshifter 05:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Aye, that was the original project, though it has advanced much much further than the details on that page. Kirkburn (talk) 15:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Turning it off
I can't. "To disable this editor for yourself, go to Special:Preferences and select the "Editing" tab. Tick the option to "Disable Rich Text Editing".": My Preferences do not have that option. Help! — Robin Patterson (Talk) 22:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It will only appear when you're on a wiki with the new editor active. Kirkburn (talk) 15:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * So I have to turn it off for each wiki separately? I hope it stays off permanently for each wiki then. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 22:32, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * No, the option to turn it off only appears when you're on one with it - it's just a side effect of how extensions works. It's still a Wikia-wide setting. Kirkburn (talk) 00:11, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Is there a specific list of wikis with this?
I'm curious about this, and I want to try it out, but the wiki I'm at(SmashWiki) doesn't have this. Obviously, a list of wikis with this would let me go to one with this.SZL (Talk)15:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * A quick list is that all new wikis created since around the start of December have it. may help you here. Kirkburn (talk) 15:54, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Has this editor been abandoned?
I checked the recent wikis as suggested in the previous thread, and none seems to have the new editor. What is the status of this new feature ? If abandonned, I'm curious to know why. Thanks. pcarbonnelle 20:50, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * They should do. It's a user preference, so you may have it switched off. Visit a new wiki and check your editing preferences. Kirkburn (talk) 23:52, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Is there anywhere the new editor can be tried out?
At one point the new editor was enabled on the Terminator wiki. I started this user page there just to test it out eventually:
 * http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter

But now I don't see the new editor when I click the edit button on that user page. --Timeshifter 01:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it was switched off when it started causing some issues with page formatting: those issues have since been fixed however. Kirkburn (talk) 23:56, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Central Forums
From Help:New editor: "If you have feedback about the new editor, please visit the Central Forums or email [mailto:community@wikia.com community@wikia.com]."

This is confusing. I rarely use email for such things. I, like many people, avoid most email lists. They are too time consuming. Where is the main talk page for discussing the new editor? A direct link would be most helpful. --Timeshifter 01:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * For something as large as this, we don't really want a huge discussion page. You can always search on the forum to see if your topic has already come up. [mailto:community@wikia.com community@wikia.com] is not a mailing list - it's a ticketing system, which puts you in contact with the community team. Kirkburn (talk) 23:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC)