> > There's still the problem that most ODF uploads would be much more > > suitable as wiki pages. That makes them a lot easier to edit. > > Or maybe: it would be nice to have a MediaWiki extension that made > collaboratively editing slide sets as simple as collaboratively > editing wiki pages. >
This would be awesome, especially if they were exportable as slides using the Collections extension. > However, the most popular method of developing slides by far, is by > Powerpoint/Keynote/OO.org Impress etc. I don't think there has been > developed any good method for converting these kinds of slide sets to > the S5 format or a similar format. So while it may be true that "they > should just be wiki pages", in reality that doesn't really work. In > the absence of good format conversion methods, it makes more sense to > aim for collaborative editing of the existing popular style of > creating slides. > > And in the absence of THAT, it would be nice if we could at least > upload ODFs so we can download them and edit them manually (a la > SVGs). Being stuck with PDFs only is the worst of all situations. > Maybe this will be less of an issue once the Open Office PDF import extension is more complete? http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport V/r, Ryan Lane
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