[Mediawiki-l] Import/Export Word documents to/from wiki

[Benjamin Horst]

What I would do (as a user of OpenOffice but not usually MS Office), is take advantage of the latest release of OOo, 2.3, which includes native MediaWiki syntax fluency. Open your MS Word files in OOo and then choose File > Save As. In the dialog, select MediaWiki (.txt) and press Save. Paste the resulting text into your MediaWiki text editing box in your browser.

(I think there is a Word macro that also saves in MediaWiki format too, but I have not looked for it or used it personally.)

As for taking the content from MediaWiki to Word or OpenOffice Writer, I think using copy-paste is the best alternative. Your specific formatting requirements may influence this operation though. You could save the page as HTML locally from your browser, and then open that in your word processor, but that might just introduce more steps to the process unnecessarily.

-Ben

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On Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at 11:50AM, "zham rock" <zhamrock at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi - Just wondering if anyone knows of an extension that can easily convert
>msword documents to wiki and then vise versa from wiki, export it back to ms
>word again? we have bunch of ms word documentation planning to put in the
>wiki and it would be easier if theres a way to automate it?
>
>-zham
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