Forum:Rich Text Editor problems

I've noticed the Rich Text Editor (or RTE for short) has some serious problems, like for instance whenever anyone edited the page StarCraft II unit quotations with it and edited the contents of a template, it would rearrange the template fields into the wrong order and delete the template fields that were left blank. People can individually disable it in their personal preferences, but I used a "magic word" called __NOWYSIWYG__ to disable the RTE on StarCraft II unit quotations, because that article had a repeated pattern of the RTE ruining templates when data inside them was edited. The "magic word" __NOWYSIWYG__ does not prevent people with the RTE enabled from editing, but simply switches them to source view where they edit the code of the page and nothing is ruined automatically by the software. The RTE is enabled by default all over Wikia but it's in ongoing development and has plenty of bugs. In fact, the RTE isn't even part of the Wikimedia software that powers Wikipedia, Wikia, and many other wikis, but it is unique to Wikia, although several other wikis have their own Rich Text Editors that are different. Wikia's RTE is actually a custom version of one originally called MediaWiki+FCKeditor but now called CKeditor. The Community Central Forum for Wikia and blog post announcing the latest RTE are both full of people asking how to disable it on their wiki, reporting bugs in it, and in general complaining about it ruining things. Many wikis on the site have already disabled it entirely (for instance the Star Wars wiki), which only happens if an admin contacts Wikia asking for it disabled on their wiki. I would like to know what other people think of the Rich Text Editor, if they have encountered problems with it ruining things on pages, and if they think it's good or bad to have it enabled. We could leave it enabled sitewide and only use the magic word __NOWYSIWYG__ to disable it on specific articles with a pattern of it causing problems, we could actually have it enabled everywhere and not use that magic word at all, or we could have an admin contact Wikia to disable it everywhere (or on certain namespaces but not others, which is also an option). It also apparently gets disabled if your wiki uses a skin other than Monaco, but that isn't really a good idea. --The Overmind 06:25, June 2, 2010 (UTC)