[Mediawiki-l] Re: What is the current state of content importing/exporting?

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> I can see how it would be useful to be able to take Word's automatic
> numbering features, automatic headings, etc into account -- it would
> essentially be a translation from Word's internal syntax to Wiki
> markup. 
<snip>

Hello,

Sometime ago, some french wikipedians made OpenOffice and MS Word macro
to export text to MediaWiki syntax. I have never tested them and their
are only available in French AFAIK.

 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Macro_Word
 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Macro_OpenOffice.org

The lastest Word template is 0.52 which can be downloaded at:

 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia52.dot

Direct download link:

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/d/de/Wikipedia52.dot


Seems it has been made by Aoineko (a french user living in japan, often
connected on irc).

According to the french page it should be able to convert:

version 0.4:
_ bold text to '''text'''
_ italic text to ''text''
_ underlined text to [[text]]
_ title1 to == text ==
_ title2 to == text ==
_ title3 to === text ===

version 0.51:
_ convert list to * and # syntax
_ tables to wikisyntax tables
_ add a toolbar

Let me know if you need more description / english translation.

cheers,

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