[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: wiki versus Word

[Jentzen Mooney]

Evelyn,
This has issue has also been sitting on my shoulders. I really 
appreciate links and findings below.
I was looking into these for little while but no commitment yet 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors
Thank you
/jentzen

Evelyn Yoder wrote:
> Hi everyone -
>
> I sympathize with the struggle to introduce users to a new tool - they
> resist because learning new things slows them down...they lose productivity
> and it's frustrating.
>
> I've been looking for a tool that allows users to have an editor with a
> friendly UI that is compatible with MediaWiki, so I'm trying out this
> combination:
>
> OpenOffice Writer, (http://www.openoffice.org/) because it behaves like MS
> Word, and Sun Wiki Publisher (
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher)<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher>
> ,
> because it promises a painless upload/download with MediaWiki. I'm
> attempting to put it together now - I'll keep you posted
>
> Also, this article is a great introduction to wiki use:
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-social-mediawiki/index.html
> Best,
> Evelyn
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Evelyn Yoder
> Technical Communications
> http://longjump.com/
>
> MediaWiki-based online help:  http://longjumpsupport.com/
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: McHale, Nina <Nina.McHale at ucdenver.edu>
> Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word
> To: "mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> 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
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