Rich Text Editors For MediaWiki Wikis

When users with a lesser degree of technical knowledge and understanding of markup languages get involved with Wikis and MediaWiki Wikis in particular they quite often get put off from actually doing any editing because of their unfamiliarity with the Wikitext markup language.

Although the Wikitext language was developed with the intention of being a lightweight markup language for its simplicity and ease of use when editing Wiki pages, it's still a markup language and as such takes time to learn.

As a result of this, large Wiki farms and in particular Wikia have incorporated Rich Text editors into their Wikis so that newer users can edit in an environment that they feel comfortable in.

I'm currently working on finding/developing a rich text editor suitable for my own Wiki. Below is a list of MediaWiki-compatible rich text editor extensions I've found so far.

• CKeditor - Previously known as FCKeditor, a modified version of this editor is currently being tested on most Wikia Wikis.
• Extension:FCKeditor (by Mafs) - An experimental rich text editor based off of an older version of CKeditor
• widgEditor A free, open source WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor designed to be used for relatively simple editing in rich text.

I'll update this list as and when I find new ones. If anyone knows of any more please do leave a link to them in the comments section and I'll add them to the list. :)