Convert to wikitext
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[edit] Convert .doc to wikitext
There is a special place in hell for the .doc format. Here are some ways to convert .doc to the wiki. In all cases, if there are embedded images that you *really* need to upload, then you will still need to do that separately: Special:Upload
[edit] OpenOffice
- Download the Go-OO version of OpenOffice
- Open your document in OpenOffice
- File ==> Export . . . ==> change "File format" to MediaWiki
- open the new .txt file on your desktop and paste it into the wiki
This is the cleanest and most direct solution I have seen. And, as an added bonus, you get a *much* better office suite. Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice, and in fact it's the fork of OpenOffice that most distributors ship (Ubuntu, SuSE, the NeoOffice project for Macintosh, etc). The main branch of OpenOffice is maintained by Sun, and they haven't been great custodians. Use Go-OO
[edit] All on the web
- first use Word2CleanHTML to get some HTML
- then use DiBerri's HTML2wiki converter
paste the output into the wiki, making sure the rich text editor isn't enabled (if the rich text editor is enabled, you see two row of buttons). The output is not quite as readable, but it actually seems to do a better job of preserving special characters (gotta love Perl regex matching)
[edit] Microsoft Word Macro
If you're a dyed in the wool Microsoftie, here's a macro for you
[edit] Errata
- There are more Word macros available here: MediaWiki page of Word macros
- Here's a MediaWiki extension that will convert HTML to wikitext automagically, but it's limited and I'm not in the mood to install it. The page also has links to other converters, including a recommendation to use DiBerri's converter
