Enhancements for the wiki editing interface

[Proulx-S]

OSF is awesome for many reasons.

A few years ago I tried adopting it but got somewhat repel by the interface for editing wikis. Getting back to it now, I see it is much better, or perhaps I just got used to markdown/latex style editing :-P Anyway, good job on the live editing feature!!

I personally feel live collaborative text editing is or will be crucial to manuscript preparation. It would be awesome if it could happen right where the data and code lives, i.e. in OSF. The wiki editing interface is now quite close! Here are some feature suggestions that I think would smooth transition from other platforms, currently more performant platforms like Online Word, Google Docs and Overleaf.

Undockable panels:
The browser window is charged with elements that, when it comes to composing texts, are just taking space and making it hard to adjust things like font to a comfortable size. Being able to undock at least the "edit" and "view" panels would go a long way in favoring a focused editing experience.

Display each live contributor's cursor and selection:
I am often also voice-connected when live collaborating on a document. Seeing each other's cursor and text selection--ideally color coded--really makes the interactions smoother. Bonus point I can click on colleague's face to jump to where her/his cursor is in a long document. I have been spoiled by Google Docs for these features.

Integrate citation management:
I'd really like to draft manuscripts directly in the wiki, but for that easy citation management is a must--I mean citing the work of others in the wiki. Now I must say I have yet to see a really smooth experience of citation managing. Overleaf is doing an interesting job though, where typing some command like \cite directly in the text pops a small search bar and where everything else (inserting Authors, X et al. and the bibliographic entry in the formatted text) is handled automatically. It still requires one to maintain a bibtex file, which I found quite cumbersome. Some markdown implementation of citation management has been proposed in #9333. I would propose that a minimal front-end implementation could leverage DOIs: a user would somehow just enter the doi of the work to be cited, then some back-end process would find everything needed to build a properly formatted citation. This would obviously not work well if the work does not have a doi but hey, it's 2022.