In response to one of the many suggestions we received during our survey a few months back, we’ve made inroads into making editor easier on Battlestar Wiki. With the integration of the FCKEditor for MediaWiki for the Wikis, people will be able to edit the wiki in a style that is reminiscent of writing up documents in OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word. (Otherwise known as “What You See Is What You Get”, or WYSIWYG.)

Should you be an advanced user and wish to disable it, simply go to “My Preferences“. Then click on the “Misc” tab and check off the “Disable rich editor” checkbox.

A few notes for lovers of that weasely technobabble:

• The “edit tools” at the bottom of the editing page do not function when using the FCK Editor, even in “Wikitext” mode. Editing tools will still work if you disable the rich text editor. (This bug has been reported here.)
• When saving content using the text editor, links that do not need to be piped are piped, like: [[William Adama|William Adama]]. This bug doesn’t affect the functionality of the link, but may annoy some people who know that such linking is unnecessary. It has been reported here.

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