[Mediawiki-l] How to convert to wiki format?

[Farrell, Bob (SRI)]

Addendum to the last message:
http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/index.html will convert
html to WikiML and has worked perfectly nearly every time.

Bob Farrell 

-----Original Message-----
From: wiki at avenarius.sk [mailto:wiki at avenarius.sk]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 2:48 PM
To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to convert to wiki format?

On Thursday, 10th August 2006 at 05:56:06 (GMT -0400), Caucci, Joe
wrote:

> I've got lots of large .pdf and .doc documents which I would like to 
> put in wiki format as easily and painlessly as possible. Has anyone 
> else figured out a good way to approach this?

Have you tried simply saving .doc files in MS Word in the HTML Reduced
(!) format, then paste the code of the resulting page into the wiki's
edit window and upload?

As shocking as it may sound, I've managed to produce webpages that
validated OK in w3.org's validator (after 2 or 3 manual corrections)
after saving Word files using the HTML Reduced (!) output format.

It must be the HTML *Reduced* format, though, introduced in Office XP, I
think.

As to PDF files, I'd use FineReader to convert them to *.doc, then use
Word's HTML Reduced (!) format to save to html.
(Or FineReader's own simple HTML output format.)

(None of this may be "a good way to approach this"
but it's the only way I know right now.)

--
Yours,
Alex.
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