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PESWiki:Tools/Editing tools
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Editing tools intended to provide enhanced editing functionality; edit bots, spellcheckers, wikisyntax conversion utilities, etc. are included here.
For the more technically inclined, Wiki markup is a simple way of formatting a wiki page; it works. However, many would-be users of MediaWiki are put off by what looks to them—rightly—to be code of any sort. These users are adjusted to publishing and editing in a more visually straightforward WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. The metaphor WYSIWYG is most often used, but in case of mediawiki false, you can never get exactly what you see, since what you get depends on your browser, screen resolution, fonts, your mediawiki skin and so on. WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) is more precise but rare.
It is often convenient to edit Wiki articles using a full-fledged text editor, instead of the text area of a web browser. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing articles (especially long articles), such as spell checking, search and replace, macros, and syntax highlighting. They also provide a quick and easy way of saving a local backup copy of an article, possibly for future offline editing.
This article contains pointers for adapting several text editors to editing Wiki articles.
