Yes, I've experienced this many times. Maybe with every wiki I've set
up...
People don't recognize that this short term convenience eliminates
many of the advantages of a wiki in the first place, but after enough
experience they will learn.
In the meantime, you are doing the right thing. You need to be firm to
establish the precedent of best practices, especially with a new wiki.
You may have to convert some docs into wiki pages yourself, for now.
Open the word doc in OpenOffice, and then Export it in MediaWiki text
format. Then you can copy the text, which will be in the correct
markup syntax, and paste it into the text field of the wiki's edit page.
You can go one better and find the OpenOffice extension that allows
you to configure your wiki and then save pages directly into it from
within OpenOffice, and perhaps teach this practice to your users over
time...
Ben
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:06 PM, "McHale, Nina"
<Nina.McHale(a)ucdenver.edu> wrote:
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.
Nina
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