FckEditor with Mediawiki, upload images, html

Hi all,

we are using MediaWiki as a communication tool for our working team, and we would like to have an editor opened to a wider audience.

FckEditor seems to be a good answer to our needs.

Unfortunately, after having installed the extension FckEditor for MediaWiki, we discovered some big differences between the Html demo version presented on the website (http://www.fckeditor.net/demo) and the wiki version.

First, when we press on the Insert/Edit Image button in the editor the image properties dialog options are really different from the Html editor. In particular, we don't have the possibility to upload an image from a local folder. Only the pictures that are already on the server are available. There is a very good filter to find an image on the server based on a wild card name, though.
It then seems that we have to import images manually, independently from the editor. We then face the problem that the images have to be imported one by one, what can take a little while if we have many images...

Do you know if the image import dialog window currently on the demo will also be available on the wiki version soon? That would be a real help for the users.
If the new editor implements this feature, where will the images be stored? On the page itself, as for some other wikis, or in the database of the server?

Another difficulty we face is the fact that the editor converts the content of the page in pure wiki langage, whereas Wikimedia, as most of the wikis, also supports basic html code. It would be really great to be able to choose between generating wikitext and html code. Indeed we sometimes needs to edit the code of some pages to go futher that what the editor offers and we would like to keep those modifications.
Having this feature would also allow users to create wiki pages very quickly by copy/pasting some html formated text (content of a .doc file for instance). This already works quite well with the demo version.


FckEditor is a really good tool that we plan to use as the standard editor for our wiki. If the features mentionned above could be integrated in a future version of the Mediawiki plugin it would be for us the perfect tool!

Thank you very much for the feedback you could give to us,


Best regards,


Claire