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		nma83 on Oct 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor mediawiki-mode in emacs seems like a good solution, and emacs has proven to be a good enough IDE for other programming languages.

_delirium on Oct 25, 2014 [–]

Interesting, I didn't know about mediawiki-mode. Something like that does sound like the right way to go for a certain class of "power users" who want an IDE: build on top of an existing IDE, with interaction to Wikipedia itself done via the MediaWiki API.

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