[Building Sakai] Rwiki

[Charlie Macchia]

Hi John, let me know if I've got this right.

Are you saying: rather than try to integrate a better WYSIWYG editor on top
of the current rWiki, instead create a separate wiki like tool, that uses
tinyMCE as the front end, but isn't strict wiki syntax, yet still maintains
things like history, versions, alerts etc.

Aside from getting into the plusses and minuses - do I have this right?

Charlie 

On 7/17/09 8:18 AM, "John Norman" <john at caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> A slightly different tack to consider (posted as an individual and
> early adopter of wiki) is that the use cases where WYSIWYG is
> important will be handled by TinyMCE-based page authoring in Sakai 3.
> However, we don't yet know whether there will be residual demand for
> "pure" wiki functionality (i.e. using wiki syntax). Perhaps a good way
> forward might be to consider introducing the page authoring approach
> in the "content authoring on Sakai 2" demo (http://3akai.sakaiproject.org/dev/
>   for now) as an *additional* new tool within Sakai 2. The way the
> technology is presented to users might need to be changed, but in
> principle it would allow flexible page authoring and conventional wiki
> to exist side by side and to be used according to the use case/
> requirements.
> 
> An advantage of this approach would be smoothing the path from 2 to 3.
> 
> Cambridge could support such an effort with advice and guidance, but
> would not be able to commit the resource to make it happen.
> 
> John
> 
> On 17 Jul 2009, at 11:48, Adam Marshall wrote:

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