[Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word

[Robert Hagens]

You could suggest they use a conversion tool like this
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Word_macros to convert from word to wiki.

I think you lose a huge collaboration ability when you just post a word
doc. You could try telling them it is much easier to have multiple
people collaborating on a doc when it is converted into wiki text.

Rob

 

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Nina
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:07 AM
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word

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
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