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Wikiwyg is an open source javascript library, available for inclusion in any web writing tool.

Also see http://barcamp.org/index.cgi?WikiWyg for a more traditional page editing (instead of paragraph-level editing).Wikiwyg can work on any div (so you can point it at the whole page, or each section).

Re: "getting close" -- what's missing? Add suggestions here:
http://wiki.wikiwyg.net/index.cgi?WikiwygWishlist

Yes, it does seem quite nice, and I am looking forward for when I can integrate it into wordpress.

In the meantime I have to admit I had not understood their copyright:

First they say:
"Copyright (c) 2005 Socialtext Corporation
655 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301 U.S.A.
All rights reserved."

Then next line:
"Wikiwyg is free software.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."

So, are all right reserved or it is some rights reserved? Is it copyright or is it copyleft? I am not a lawyer, but doesn't "all right reserved" negate "this is free software"? Maybe as an advisor of the company you could help out.

Thanks,
Pietro

Yes, it is open source under the LGPL
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

I can look up the answer to the copyright question.

I am also not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that "all rights reserved" means we keep all the copyrights. Then, separately, the LGPL grants you some explicit _distribution/use_ rights, which is not the same as copyright. No one but Socialtext owns the copyright, but copyright != all rights.

Or to put it another way, FS/OSS licenses _use_ copyright to grant other rights, but are not themselves grants of copyright.