I recently got very disappointed by any markup language i was using for my django forum, wiki and blog - basically because BBCode and Markdown are all easy to write but very limiting, while (X)HTML is powerful, but hard to write by hand. (Actually I found it easier to write HTML than to work around bbcode limitations for another part of my blog (which is still not finished, but not due to html :) ))

So when someone on the SCT forum started to ask why I was using markdown in the wiki I sparked a small discussion about the pros/cons of WYSIWYG vs. editing markup by hand. I even carried it over to another thread.

So what are the pros and cons of WYSIWYG?

• +: Very userfriendly (if done right)
  
• +: Very powerful (you can add custom features, like wiki links, inserting attachments as images, resizing/alt texts of images, etc.)
  
• +: You don't need to learn a new markup language for every forum, wiki or blog
  
• -: Security might be a problem - you need to validate (X)HTML very carefully to avoid XSS
  
• -: Some might want to edit pages offline, or manage them in a text based version control system.
  
• -: Diffs are not that straight forward
  
• -: Hard to do "right" (WYSIWYG is not that simple and might require extra work for every browser - and you need extensions for your forum/wiki/blog features)
  

So - does anyone have other pros/cons for wysiwyg vs. markup editing? any experiences? :)

I once had the problem of having no ideas when i needed a programming project. Somehow this changed significantly ..

Things i would LOVE to code, but have no time:

• 38 issues for SCT
  
• BBCode WYSIWYG editor including support for attaching images (i NEED this one ASAP)
  
• Treez - Changelog manager and (what's more important for me right now) code review tool - (Yes, I still know no useful alternative)
  
• Billmonk application for the iphone - I am too lazy to enter all my bills, I need this one. I already started coding, but still far from anything useful.
  
• ShelfShare - I very much need to improve this one - improve performance, add integration into facebook, etc.
  
• Let alone finishishing my personal "blog" of april's surfing action
  

Any advice on how to prioritize these would be appreciated :) (and no.. there is no money in any of these projects ;) )

I just helped to launch another forum based on SCT: The Django Forum. As last time with http://django-resource.de we were able to automatically migrate all forum categories, users and posts without any hitches.

It seems visitors to my website http://sct.sphene.net are not really representative. Or did I miss that Internet Explorer is now on 4th place behind Firefox, Opera AND Safari :)

I just realized that Sphene Community Tools (My currently most active private project implementing a django forum and wiki application) is already one year in development. This finally removes the "Short source control history" - warning on it's Ohloh project page.