If you want an enhanced editing experience and you’re using Firefox, try installing wikEd. Its a WYSIWYM editor that provides functionality such as copy-and-paste from word.

For now we’re having a using-driven installation on the MIKE2.0 site but may provide it for a general release.

1. Log in.

2. Figure out which skin you’re using: http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/Special:Preferences (or any other wiki instance), 2nd tab is “skins”.

3. Edit http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/User:firstname.lastname/mike2.js

Add the following text to the end of the page (it’s OK if it’s empty to begin with):

// install [[User:Cacycle/wikEd]] in-browser text editor

document.write(’<script type=”text/javascript” src=”‘

+ ‘http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd.js‘

+ ‘&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript”></’ + ’script>’);

4. SHIFT + Reload the page, the editor should be there.

As an example go to: http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/User:Sean.mcclowry/mike2.js

This approach could also be installed on other recent versions of MediaWiki that provide user-enabled scripting (such as BearingPoint’s IM Collab environment).

For more information, go to the wikEd home page.