[Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word

[Darren VanBuren]

On Wikipedia, only uploading media (images, video and audio) is allowed.

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On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:06, "McHale, Nina" <Nina.McHale at ucdenver.edu>  
wrote:

> Hey, all,
>
> Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize  
> uploading of Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main  
> objection to it is that we ought to be entering information into  
> wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document  
> versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes  
> it a wiki...
>
> I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not  
> outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get  
> people to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being  
> unreasonable? I even stated that it's acceptable to load the final  
> version of a 20-page report, or a form that's meant to be printed  
> out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state that do not  
> need further editing.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised  
> that it came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as  
> I can tell, does not support uploading of Word docs.
>
> Nina
> Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
> Assistant Professor, Web Librarian
> Auraria Library
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