On 29/01/2008, Herta Van den Eynde herta.vandeneynde@gmail.com wrote:
Note that it usually isn't a good idea to upload e.g. word documents in wiki as you lose a lot of flexibility both in reading and updating documentation. If you have Word documents you want to migrate to wiki, there are decent word to mediawiki conversion tools around to help you. We're using this one: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus
We upload MS Word and Excel files when they're actually the original form of something and we want to keep it around (like allowing upload of PDFs). This is only on our sysadmin wiki, and we don't have an antivirus in place yet - I really wouldn't enable MS Office documents on a more general wiki without good antivirus in place.
- d.