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[MediaWiki Forums] Do any of you know if there is an extension for MediaWiki that can convert a word document into mediawiki markup. I know there is a tool that can do that, but I would to have mediawiki do that for me.

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[Daily Cup of Tech] Convert Word To MediaWiki Format: Run the Word2MediaWiki macro by bringing up the Macros dialog (Tools->Macro->Macros”¦ or Alt+F8), selecting Word2MediaWiki and clicking Run.

[Egregious Thoughts] ghewgill: the abomination of mediawiki templates: A naive question, perhaps, but how difficult would it be to write a dict server that just sends off an HTTP request and scrapes the screen for the results? I haven't studied the protocol so don't know what it returns, but this seems to dodge the issue of parsing the XML directly.

[CyberText Newsletter] Convert HTML and Word into Wiki markup: Thanks to some members of a technical writing list I’m on, I found out about some tools that convert HTML and Word to Wiki markup. I haven’t tried any of these yet, so I don’t know how ‘clean’

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[Foswiki's Extensions web] MediaWikiToFoswikiContrib < Extensions < Foswiki: mediawiki2foswiki --file dump.xml --web MediaWiki --language de --topicmap 'Hauptseite=WebHome,Spezial.Allpages=WebTopicList' --images /var/www/mediawiki/images --defaultweb _mediawiki_default --plugin MyConversionPlugin --exclude '^(MediaWiki|Bild|Kategorie):'

[Ajax Bestiary] Converting Between Wiki Markup & HTML with Prototype: The Converter function always performs 2 checks before attempting to convert a given node.  First it ensures that the node is in fact a node and not a stray function from the Prototype enhanced object.

[Doc Searls Weblog] Doc Searls Weblog · Outlining in MediaWiki: I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re asking, but OpenOffice has an “export to MediaWiki” option–which means that you can edit something in it using a friendly WYSIWIG interface and it’ll do all the Wiki formatting for you.

[All The Modern Things] Wikiversity, interested? - How to make a wiki editable slideshow: So the S5 format is not much more than a text file with some markup (and maybe some images). This is good for slideshows with minimal bleeding-edge techniques, which I guess is about 99% of them.

[djangosnippets.org: Latest snippets] Django snippets: Media Wiki With mwlib: Once you install the mwlib you can use mwit to convert Mediawiki markup to HTML. I am include the model that uses it to hopefully provide a good example.

[Magazine of e] Open-Source Office Suites Compared: I especially liked the MediaWiki extension, though, which lets you edit and publish directly to or from sites that use the MediaWiki software (Wikipedia, for instance) without needing to know the MediaWiki markup language.

[blog :: Brent -> [String]] Typeclassopedia ”” a generic response « blog :: Brent -> [String]: Apfelmus: one of my stalled projects is using Pandoc to convert the literate Haskell files that are the raw input to the TMR PDFs into MediaWiki markup. It works pretty well, as long as you add a manual step to convert the <code>

[DARnet Andy Roberts] How to convert a Word doc or HTML to Wiki Markup: The challenge is to avoid temptation to open up the wiki for raw HTML input and then putting the really bloated and non standard html code which Word produces itself into the wiki, because then nobody is ever going to really want to wade through all that rubbish in order to edit the content. That’s similar to the problem where one person likes to use one of the attempts at a WYSIWYG wiki editor for mediawiki to create pages, and then another person tries to develop the page further using the plain wiki text editor - it’s messy.

[Wikispaces : www - all changes] feature requests: Actually video uploading would make it lag, unless it is made into flash... And that would cost a lot. - fyrevortex; use http://www.zamzar.com to convert video(up to 100mg) from another format to flash. This site is free. - lazz04 ...

[Citizendium Blog] Citizendium Blog » Wiki Markup Language: What You See Is”¦ Messy: Regarding Chris Day’s idea of a software document converter (e.g., .RTF to WikiEditor), as an immediate stopgap solution, we might ask for volunteers to serve as human document converters.

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