Standalone editor for editing wiki text in Windows / Internet Explorer

Question

I am looking for a standalone program that has a nice simple editor for creating a wiki context, and then loads it into the internal MediaWiki installation.

We have a private MediaWiki. Many users are new to the wiki and confuse the syntax, but want to use it. The small toolbar in the wikipage editor is not good enough. I found MSWord here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus

But not enough. I think that a good stand-alone program with the ability to edit tables and such graphic images will be really good. Is there something similar for windows?

Everything is similar to Firefox, but we must use Internet Explorer internally.

Answer 1

You can try OpenOffice , it does a decent job of exporting to Mediawiki format.

From Wikipedia :

OpenOffice 3: Text documents open in all versions of OpenOffice.org 3 can be exported initially to the MediaWiki format via the File → Export → File format drop-down menu. Because OpenOffice.org can open all Microsoft Office files, you can open files created in Microsoft Word and export them to the MediaWiki format.

Answer 2

You can also just use the WYSIWYG editor, such as FCK . By the way, you can also open this in a separate browser window (which, according to your question, you can search for).