Maybe an FTP interface would be even simpler? AFAIK MS webdav implementations are very buggy and often hard to deal with. Does Excel have the ability to access FTP? IE definitely can do it, so I think office probably also can...

There even exists some extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebDAV but as I understand it's in experimental status. But I've experimented with webdav on windows several years ago and the task was tricky because of various compatibility issues :) Of course it will be sufficient if you'll make webdav work :) FTP will require a) creating some daemon that will reupload file uploaded via ftp to mediawiki via API. and b) finding a way to pass ftp link to excel in such way that excel will remember that's an ftp file. But just like that, with WebDAV you'll also need to find a way to correctly pass a link to msoffice. I've just checked FTP - if you open excel as just "excel.exe ftp://host/path.xls" - it will really open that file for editing and when you click save it will be really saved to FTP location! :) also you can specify "ftp://host/path.xls" in File->Open dialog. But of course it doesn't work like that if you click on FTP link from a browser (even from IE) because the browser first downloads it to a temporary folder.

Of course! And those are properly versioned. Have you ever diff'ed 2 excel files ? Users need to understand the consequences of doing things "the easy way" People are used to save every 5 minutes, even on share point this completely defeats any versioning. No dia 19/10/2013, às 16:45, vitalif(a)yourcmc.ru escreveu:

With editing a page in Mediawiki most people will save their document at sane times during their editing, such as after making changes to a section or when the entire edit is completed. Within something like Excel, document saving is a little bit less sane. People are in the habit of pressing CTRL-S after everytime that they make any sort of minor change. This can make reading the diffs difficult. For example, which set of diffs is more useful? Set 1: -------------------- 1 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 2 - Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 3 - Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 4 - Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. 2 + This sentence has been changed to reflect the new opinion of the author. These new opinions are profoundly different than the old opinions. 3 + Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum new opinion eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 4 + Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est new stuff. -------------------- Set 2: -------------------- 1 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 2 - Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 2 + This sentence has been changed to reflect the new opinion of the author. These new opinions are profoundly different than the old opinions. 3 3 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 4 4 Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. -------------------- 1 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 2 2 This sentence has been changed to reflect the new opinion of the author. These new opinions are profoundly different than the old opinions. 3 - Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 3 + Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum new opinion eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 4 4 Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. -------------------- 1 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 2 2 This sentence has been changed to reflect the new opinion of the author. These new opinions are profoundly different than the old opinions. 3 3 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum new opinion eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 4 - Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. 4 + Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est new stuff. -------------------- Hopefully the text wrapping won't ruin those two examples... Thank you, Derric Atzrott