FCKEditor for Mediawiki

[Niels]

Once an image is added, if you switch back to wikitext mode, and then switch back to rich editor mode, the image disappears, and the text [[Image:]] is all that remains. This happens reliably, though it's not clear to me if it's event-driven or based on some sort of count somewhere.

[Niels]

I wish I could change the title to Images drop out in FCKeditor for Mediawiki

[Wiktor Walc]

Copied from #3270:

"looking in mediawiki/fckplugin.js, I can see where the image is constructed (starting at line 524, with "imgName"). That all seems okay. I wonder if it happens when you try to recover the _fck_mw_filename, but if that variable hasn't been set, then there's nothing for the mediawiki/fckplugin.js to construct with.

I don't know. I'm groping around in the dark here."

Are you running the latest version of FCKeditor extension available here: ​http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/ ? Which MediaWiki version are you using? Does it happen in all browsers?

[Niels]

Are you running the latest version of FCKeditor extension?

You mean version 3368 in SVN? Not sure, how would I check? The "About FCKEditor" message says "version [development] Build [dev]"

It works on a remote wiki: ​http://navyhpsp.net/wiki/FCKEditorImageTest

It breaks after a couple of cycles on localhost: ​http://localhost/wiki/FCKEditorImageTest

[Niels]

Steps to reproduce on localhost:

1) upload image 2) insert image into article 3) Switch to wikitext view 4) Switch back to richtext view 5) Switch to wikitext view: broken

or

1) upload image 2) insert image into article 3) Save 4) Edit 5) Switch to wikitext view: broken

[Peter Green]

I can reproduce reliably on 2.6.4 B21629, MediaWiki 1.14.0 using IE8. Will test on other browsers tonight.

[Peter Green]

Tested on Firefox and Chrome last night - same behaviour.

[Niels]

Same behavior in Safari 4 beta

[Wiktor Walc]

I have tried a vanilla MW 1.14.0 installation with just the FCKeditor extension enabled and $wgEnableUploads set to true (on Chrome, IE7/IE8, FF2, FF3 with no extra extensions).

The FCKeditor extension has been downloaded here: ​http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/nightly/svn/mediawiki_fckeditor_ext_N.zip

I am unable to reproduce it locally (WAMP) - any hints on how to trigger this bug? Maybe you're using file with a strange name or something like that?

[Niels]

Also happens, reliably, in Opera (9.26 . . . upgrading to 9.64, we'll see).

It happens with every [[Image:]] tag, regardless. JPG, SVG, GIF, doesn't matter. Just follow the steps I outlined above. I use this instance of mediawiki with fckeditor hundreds of times a day, because it's where I keep my medical school notes. It *doesn't* happen with galleries.

FWIW I'm running this on a Mac. I'll try running it on a local linux box tonight. I'll also try running it on across a LAN instead of internet.

[Peter Green]

Replying to elsandalos:

I can reproduce reliably on 2.6.4 B21629, MediaWiki 1.14.0 using IE8. Will test on other browsers tonight.

For those wanting to replicate this, i am using the current version of the turnkey linux mediawiki appliance, but i have upgraded the included FCKEditor with 2.6.4 B21629 to get rid of another bug.

​http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/mediawiki

[Niels]

I'm using 2.6.4 "trunk" from SVN, checked out either yesterday or the day before (can't recall, I'm running on not much sleep working in the ICU), and MediaWiki/trunk, checked out at the same time. The latest revision in the svn.fckeditor.net repo at the time was 3368. So I downloaded as close to that as possible. (How do I get the build number?)

[Niels]

Upgraded my OS X mediawiki to trunk revision 49359. Image handling still breaks on localhost.

I installed Ubuntu's 8.10 mediawiki package and added fckeditor from svn (mediawiki trunk, fckeditor 2.6.4), and it *works*. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .

Why would this break on localhost in three different versions of mediawiki under OS X and four different browsers, but it works in localhost LAMP and WAMP? The server is just sending the ck package to the client, right? Or is there server-side work being done too? FWIW I'm using apache2 and php5 from macports.

[David]

some of you may find this helpful

​http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/2624

I had the same issue and it was fixed with the above solution , though imo it's a temp fix as you idealy want to leave on the clean html settting i would think

[Jakub Ś]

FCKeditor was retired and is no longer supported. All active development was moved to its predecessor, ​CKEditor 3.x, that is a fully mature and far superior product. We recommend you upgrade as soon as possible.