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This is desperately needed. My engineers like the code, but for a growing company with an increasing percentage of non-engineers we're seeing that WYSIWIG functionality is required. We're going to have to move off of Wikidot fot just this reason.
Just click the “Preview” button, and what you see is what you get.
In my experience, WYSIWYG editors on wikis and fora are all broken; I have yet to find one that works. Before you move everyone over to somewhere else, try this test:
Create a new page, post, whatever. Open Microsoft Word and find a document with a lot of complex formatting, intricate styles, etc. Copy and paste a section of the document into the new page, post, whatever.
You will probably note that you now have indented paragraphs, paragraph leading and such like which the wiki does not support. You cannot adjust any of that stuff, because the tools are not available. So for example you may have an indented paragraph, and now all your subsequently added paragraphs are indented because there is no tool in the toolbar to control paragraph indent. When you save it then usually the extra formatting is lost but on some sites it remains, which is worse because now you are stuck with that indented paragraph for ever. Whichever, that behaviour is going to create support issues for you from your less technical people.
Another test, especially on a forum, is to ensure that you can accurately quote a previous post, and that you can edit your own posts multiple times.
Incredibly I have seen at least one big forum site with all of these problems, that has remained unfixed for probably four years now.
Providing at least one of you is confident enough with Wikidot syntax to build a site using dataforms then your users won't need to know the syntax. They can just complete the forms and press the save button. All the sites I am building at the moment are based on this CMS-style model and the users never see the syntax at all.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.