[Mediawiki-l] Using Wiki for documentation

[Gunter]

Dave Sigafoos schrieb:
> We are looking at using Mediawiki as the source of information for our
> IT infrastructure.  Since Wikipedia is a giant knowledge base, why not
> our IT docs?
>
> Here are a couple of questions that we have.
>
> 1) There are many existing docs, some of which we would like to move
> into MW.  We can save a word document to *.html (using this we get a
> warning from word that it might not be able to use the format :) but we
> get a lot of extra bits.  It appears that the style classes it creates
> at the beginning are not usable in the wiki document.
>
>   
As mentioned before Word2MediaWikiPlus, but that is a one way street.
For Excel you can use
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro_for_EXCEL_tableconversion


> 2) As we move forward we are looking to create a 'template' for the
> various types of documents we have including Project Scope, Project
> Technical Design and Project Functional Design.
>
> I have been looking at the docs and 'templates' and wonder if I have
> missed something.  Is there an easy way to create a 'template' (a
> complete page with all tables, headings etc create) and then when you
> want a new page simply bring that document in instead of the blank edit
> panel
>
>   
This is a three-step process:

a) create your template, usally with variables
b) create a sample page, which must be protected against changes
( install the input box extension
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox)
d) create an input box with the attribut preload=template sample

> 3) As we all know, change can be a very intimidating thing.  With this
> in mind we are looking for ways to be able to edit, especially new
> documents, with some form of WYSIWYG type editor.  Is there any that
> have been used successfully with MW?  Any stories that you would like to
> share on how you use these
>
>   
i don't recommend the yet available solutions. a half day introduction
to your co-workers will do a better job.

GunterS