Suggestion for the wiki

[DeVo]

Using MediaWiki as a platform for the Wiki is a great choice. However, many extensions are out for it including the most wanted one(imo): VisualEditor

Implementing this extension will help many Wiki editors by making it way easier to create & edit pages.

[darkdreamingdan]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Our approach of late is for less customisation to our platforms, rather than more.  The current (largely broken) state of the wiki - particularly regarding the logins - is due to the amount of complexity that custom plugins introduce.  A motivation for switching to IPB is that it had 90% of PHPBB's features without any customisations.  

Right now we're focusing on just trying to get the wiki working again with logins etc.  Once that happens we can reevaluate customisations, but it is unlikely to happen in the near future.

[darkdreamingdan]

I've since investigated implementing MediaWiki's visual editor in depth.  It basically isn't an easy thing to add, and has a lot of moving parts.  You have to install several plugins for it to work correctly, and there were still a few bugs on our Wiki.

We might revisit it once it becomes stable and is integrated into MediaWiki's default package.