Forum:Rich Text Editor and Monaco skin updates - July 15th

Good morning!

We have two updates coming today (15th July), consisting of tweaks to the Monaco skin, and some upgrades to the new Rich Text Editor.

First, the Monaco skin changes:
 * We are adding "creation links" to sidebar to surface and promote content creation. On blog pages, these change to blog creation links.
 * All pages will have an article footer, with appropriate page specific links, such as WhatLinksHere.
 * The toolbox link ordering has changed - it goes left/right/left/right/etc. instead of being one list split into two. Essentially, this means your toolbox links may reorganise, but they should also appear in more predictable locations.

Second, the Rich Text Editor feature updates:
 * The editor now allows entering basic wikitext in WYSIWYG mode to help prevent newbie mistakes and give those used to the traditional editors a few shortcuts. Wikitext is converted into Rich Text upon clicking Preview/Save or switching back from source mode. These types of wikitext are accepted:
 * Headings
 * Links
 * Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough
 * Signatures
 * Simple templates and magic words
 * We now support HTML comments when they begin a line of text. A little yellow note icon will appear - hovering over this shows you the content of the comment, and clicking it allows you to edit or remove it.
 * We have also improved support for pasting between different instances of the editor (e.g. from one wiki to another).
 * Internationalization support has been added to make this editor accessible for all languages.

Finally, we are also rolling out our "leaner" version of Monaco - see Forum:Wikia is changing javascript frameworks for more info, which will help improve page load times and browser performance throughout Wikia.

Thanks for your time! 09:08, 15 July 2009 (UTC)