Our users have found that using LibreOffice to convert MS Word documents to wikitext is the best approach to getting 'mostly there' when you want to create a wiki page from some MS Word document.
In the past, I've created a headless LibreOffice setup to accept file uploads to give editors a conversion service. I don't have that setup available anymore.
My question is: "Does anyone know of a service that *is* setup to use LibreOffice to convert MS Word to wikitext?" I searched the ToolHub to no avail.
Thanks,
Greg
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Regards, Jürgen.
Am 25.10.21 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Greg Rundlett (freephile):
Our users have found that using LibreOffice to convert MS Word documents to wikitext is the best approach to getting 'mostly there' when you want to create a wiki page from some MS Word document.
In the past, I've created a headless LibreOffice setup to accept file uploads to give editors a conversion service. I don't have that setup available anymore.
My question is: "Does anyone know of a service that *is* setup to use LibreOffice to convert MS Word to wikitext?" I searched the ToolHub to no avail.
Thanks,
Greg
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:57 PM Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Thanks.
For cli users, pandoc is probably the best choice. And I would certainly consider it as the conversion engine when standing up a new service to convert docx to Wikitext.
When I said "Our users have found...", I meant non-technical users who want to contribute to the wiki and have existing MS Word content.
Best regards,
Greg
And alas, there's nothing found on ToolHub for pandoc either. https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/search?q=pandoc&ordering=-score&page=1...
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:30 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) < greg@freephile.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:57 PM Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Thanks.
For cli users, pandoc is probably the best choice. And I would certainly consider it as the conversion engine when standing up a new service to convert docx to Wikitext.
When I said "Our users have found...", I meant non-technical users who want to contribute to the wiki and have existing MS Word content.
Best regards,
Greg
You can paste rich text into the Visual Editor. The wikitext it produces usually needs some cleaning up afterward (bold headings, inconsistent list markup, etc), but it's probably the easiest for non-technical folks.
ACN
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:35 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg@freephile.com wrote:
And alas, there's nothing found on ToolHub for pandoc either. https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/search?q=pandoc&ordering=-score&page=1...
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:30 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg@freephile.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:57 PM Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Thanks.
For cli users, pandoc is probably the best choice. And I would certainly consider it as the conversion engine when standing up a new service to convert docx to Wikitext.
When I said "Our users have found...", I meant non-technical users who want to contribute to the wiki and have existing MS Word content.
Best regards,
Greg
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VE does a pretty good job for one-off conversions.
I'm looking for a tool that non-technical staff can use for converting large numbers of docs into mostly usable wikitext. I don't know without more (recent) research whether Pandoc or LibreOffice supports better conversion. Just wondering if anyone has setup something like this or knows of its existence.
Thanks,
Greg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:33 PM AntiCompositeNumber < anticompositenumber@gmail.com> wrote:
You can paste rich text into the Visual Editor. The wikitext it produces usually needs some cleaning up afterward (bold headings, inconsistent list markup, etc), but it's probably the easiest for non-technical folks.
ACN
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:35 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg@freephile.com wrote:
And alas, there's nothing found on ToolHub for pandoc either.
https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/search?q=pandoc&ordering=-score&page=1...
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:30 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg@freephile.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:57 PM Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Thanks.
For cli users, pandoc is probably the best choice. And I would
certainly consider it as the conversion engine when standing up a new service to convert docx to Wikitext.
When I said "Our users have found...", I meant non-technical users who
want to contribute to the wiki and have existing MS Word content.
Best regards,
Greg
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Hello, I usually use your html2wiki to push docs to parsoid. It seems that there is no better tools.
Office documents can be natively translated to html by pasting them to Outlook mail message and sending them to special mailbox (that just saves them to file then the file is parsed with python mimetools).
--- Sergey
Greg Rundlett (freephile) писал 2021-10-26 05:15:
VE does a pretty good job for one-off conversions.
I'm looking for a tool that non-technical staff can use for converting large numbers of docs into mostly usable wikitext. I don't know without more (recent) research whether Pandoc or LibreOffice supports better conversion. Just wondering if anyone has setup something like this or knows of its existence.
Thanks,
Greg
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:33 PM AntiCompositeNumber anticompositenumber@gmail.com wrote:
You can paste rich text into the Visual Editor. The wikitext it produces usually needs some cleaning up afterward (bold headings, inconsistent list markup, etc), but it's probably the easiest for non-technical folks.
ACN
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:35 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg@freephile.com wrote:
And alas, there's nothing found on ToolHub for pandoc either. https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/search?q=pandoc&ordering=-score&page=1...
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:30 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg@freephile.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:57 PM Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
You might like to give https://pandoc.org/ a try?
Thanks.
For cli users, pandoc is probably the best choice. And I would certainly consider it as the conversion engine when standing up a new service to convert docx to Wikitext.
When I said "Our users have found...", I meant non-technical users who want to contribute to the wiki and have existing MS Word content.
Best regards,
Greg
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