You could suggest they use a conversion tool like this http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Word_macros to convert from word to wiki.
I think you lose a huge collaboration ability when you just post a word doc. You could try telling them it is much easier to have multiple people collaborating on a doc when it is converted into wiki text.
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:07 AM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word
Hey, all,
Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we ought to be entering information into wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes it a wiki...
I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated that it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form that's meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state that do not need further editing.
Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as I can tell, does not support uploading of Word docs.
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