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zham rock

24 Oct 2007 24 Oct '07

8:49 p.m.

Hi - Just wondering if anyone knows of an extension that can easily convert msword documents to wiki and then vise versa from wiki, export it back to ms word again? we have bunch of ms word documentation planning to put in the wiki and it would be easier if theres a way to automate it? -zham

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Boris Epstein

24 Oct 24 Oct

8:57 p.m.

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I wonder if you could convert them to HTML and then just upload them. On 10/24/07, zham rock <zhamrock(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi - Just wondering if anyone knows of an extension that can easily convert msword documents to wiki and then vise versa from wiki, export it back to ms word again? we have bunch of ms word documentation planning to put in the wiki and it would be easier if theres a way to automate it? -zham _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Benjamin Horst

8:59 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Import/Export Word documents to/from wiki

What I would do (as a user of OpenOffice but not usually MS Office), is take advantage of the latest release of OOo, 2.3, which includes native MediaWiki syntax fluency. Open your MS Word files in OOo and then choose File > Save As. In the dialog, select MediaWiki (.txt) and press Save. Paste the resulting text into your MediaWiki text editing box in your browser. (I think there is a Word macro that also saves in MediaWiki format too, but I have not looked for it or used it personally.) As for taking the content from MediaWiki to Word or OpenOffice Writer, I think using copy-paste is the best alternative. Your specific formatting requirements may influence this operation though. You could save the page as HTML locally from your browser, and then open that in your word processor, but that might just introduce more steps to the process unnecessarily. -Ben ---- OpenOffice and open source blog: http://www.solidoffice.com/ Wiki business directory: http://www.wikipages.com/ On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at 11:50AM, "zham rock" <zhamrock(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi - Just wondering if anyone knows of an extension that can easily convert msword documents to wiki and then vise versa from wiki, export it back to ms word again? we have bunch of ms word documentation planning to put in the wiki and it would be easier if theres a way to automate it? -zham _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Jim Laurino

9:37 p.m.

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On 10/24/2007 11:49:26 AM, zham rock - zhamrock(a)gmail.com wrote:

Hi - Just wondering if anyone knows of an extension that can easily convert msword documents to wiki and then vise versa from wiki, export it back to ms word again? we have bunch of ms word documentation planning to put in the wiki and it would be easier if theres a way to automate it?

This topic has come up several times before. I recently searched old mail on this topic. Here are some things I found that seem relevant. Maybe some of these will help you. This is clearly a topic of importance to many people. I removed most of the message text to keep this short. I think you will be able to find the original threads that interest you. Regards, Jim Laurino extract 1 ------------------------------------------------------- On 04/13/2007 03:45:51 PM, Frederik Dohr - fdg001(a)gmx.net wrote: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php extract 2 ------------------------------------------------------- On 05/22/2007 01:40:39 PM, Monahon Peter B. - Peter.Monahon(a)USPTO.GOV wrote: I import Microsoft Word documents with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Word2MediaWikiPlus which converts documents and pictures and facilitates uploading both, though it's for cut-and-paste, one document at a time. It took me ~3 hours to clean up, convert and upload ~500,000 words in ~30 long documents. extract 3 ------------------------------------------------------- On 05/25/2007 03:18:35 PM, Hiram Clawson - hiram(a)soe.ucsc.edu wrote: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Bulk_Page_Creator extract 4 ------------------------------------------------------- On 05/25/2007 04:03:04 PM, Carlos Ramirez - carlos(a)quantumfx.com wrote: http://search.cpan.org/~spectrum/MediaWiki-1.11/lib/MediaWiki.pm extract 5 ------------------------------------------------------- On 06/13/2007 12:00:59 PM, David Gerard - dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/DocBook_to_Wiki extract 6 ------------------------------------------------------- On 09/26/2007 07:04:17 AM, Monahon Peter B. - Peter.Monahon(a)USPTO.GOV wrote: http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/oct/convert-smart-quotes-with-php

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