[Foundation-l] Macro for converting word documents to wikipedia markup and wysiwyg for wikipedia

[Richard Holton]

On 5/5/05, Paris Lovett <paris at pazzah.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get non-wiki-savvy authors to contribute to a relatively new
> wikibook (Emergency Medicine), and I need a macro which can easily convert
> word documents with formatting (Heading1, etc.) into wiki markup. There are
> macros out there for other types of wiki markup (I've attached one to this
> email - it converts word to modwiki) but not for the kind of wiki markup we
> use on wikipedia, wikibooks, etc. Can anyone point out an existing macro, or
> can anyone tweak this attached macro?
> 
> Oh, also, is there a wysiwyg for wikipedia markup?
> 
> Would much appreciate,
> 
> Paris Lovett.
> 

Just earlier today, Heli Retzek <heli.retzek at homeopathy.at> wrote
about such a macro on  Wikitech-l:

>I have created some simple Winword Macro that can convert a win-word file
>into wikipedia format.
>
>http://www.homeopathy.at/wiki/index.php/Word2Wiki
>
>Works rather well and serves most of my needs.
>
>Following format-conversions are supportet:
>
>Bold, italic, underline (any combination)
>Dotted lists
>Numbered lists
>Paragraph 2 <br>
>Headers
>Colored text
>Simple tables
>
>Unsupported yet
>Font-size
>Super/subscript
>Background-color
>Footnotes
>Pictures
>Sofisticated Table-formats
>?????
>

Asking your tyle of question on either Wikitech-l or MediaWiki-l would
likely be more fruitful than asking here.

Good luck with your wikibook!

-- Rich Holton

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