Roxana Craciun wrote:
Hi,
Regarding this problem I have two questions:
Confluence is offering an MSOffice connector, i.e. users are able to import directly word documents as wiki pages. Does anyone know if such thing exists for MediaWiki (GLP or commercial license)?
@Nina: are you offering to the users a WYSIWYG or are they supposed to create the articles using wikimark-up? In my group, people avoid collaboration due to the fact that they are not willing to take the time and have a look on the editing guidelines.
You can use OpenOffice.org (OOo) to import/export docs to/from a MediaWiki.
To export documents to Wiki you can use the Wiki Publisher extension for OOo: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher (adds a Send - MediaWiki Server menu item and dialog to help publish the document on a MediaWiki).
To export from Wiki back to OOo, you can use the Collections Extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
I use both on the OOo Wiki http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page (although I haven't used the WikiPublisher extension for a while now). The Collections extension to export to ODT gets used a lot on the OOo Wiki,and works quite nicely.
C.