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.mch...@ucdenver.edu> > Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word > To: "mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l@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 > Nina McHale, MA/MSLS > Assistant Professor, Web Librarian > Auraria Library > http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/ > Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672599042> | MySpace< > http://www.myspace.com/ninermac> > Serving the University of Colorado Denver, > Metropolitan State College of Denver, > and the Community College of Denver > 1100 Lawrence Street > Denver, CO 80204 > 303-556-4729 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l