From: Randy K. <rhk...@gm...> - 2005-09-22 19:10:33
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Over on the ex...@ma... list someone is asking about converting MS Word and Apple Notebook files to (specifically) MediaWiki. I thought maybe there might be some suggestions over here. If you have any, I'll pass them along. Randy Kramer ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [expert] word to wiki format converter Date: Thursday 22 September 2005 02:22 pm From: "Jim C." <jli...@gm...> To: ex...@ma... > Jim, I don't know MediaWiki, but TWiki can read html if it's not too > complicated. Try exporting one document to html and see if MediaWiki can > handle it. Well, ideally we would need a command line utility that could convert an entire directory all at once, even if we do need an intermediate file format. I know there's probably a utility out there that will convert word to *.ps or *.pdf or even HTML but are there any utlities for converting any of these to something like *.wiki, or *.twiki or anything close? If I need to convert between wiki formats, I can always use sed. The real problem is going to be those Apple Notebook files which are *.nb Apple Notebook comes with NO export capability. :-/ Jim C. ------------------------------------------------------- |
From: Bayle S. <bs...@uc...> - 2005-09-22 20:12:40
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i have a script that takes a directory of text files and uploads them to a wiki. it should work with mediawiki. but it doesn't do any formattting conversion at all. i know there are commandline programs like antiword that try to convert MS word files to text. So one possible thing to do would be to use a shell script using antiword to convert every file in the directory to text, and then use my script to upload every text file. but the uploaded files would have no formatting. On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:10:08PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > Over on the ex...@ma... list someone is asking about converting > MS Word and Apple Notebook files to (specifically) MediaWiki. I thought > maybe there might be some suggestions over here. > > If you have any, I'll pass them along. > > Randy Kramer > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: [expert] word to wiki format converter > Date: Thursday 22 September 2005 02:22 pm > From: "Jim C." <jli...@gm...> > To: ex...@ma... > > > Jim, I don't know MediaWiki, but TWiki can read html if it's not too > > complicated. Try exporting one document to html and see if MediaWiki can > > handle it. > > Well, ideally we would need a command line utility that could convert an > entire directory all at once, even if we do need an intermediate file > format. I know there's probably a utility out there that will convert > word to *.ps or *.pdf or even HTML but are there any utlities for > converting any of these to something like *.wiki, or *.twiki or anything > close? If I need to convert between wiki formats, I can always use sed. > > The real problem is going to be those Apple Notebook files which are > *.nb Apple Notebook comes with NO export capability. :-/ > > Jim C. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Interwiki-discuss mailing list > Int...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/interwiki-discuss > |
From: Sunir S. <su...@su...> - 2005-10-22 03:08:56
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Much thanks go to Bayle for organizing the InterWiki workshop at WikiSym. One item we agreed to move forward on is a 'MetaWiki stack.' MetaWiki is the InterWiki search engine I wrote a long time ago. However, it does not scale as it requires a lot of manual attention. One way to alleviate that is by building a more complete stack of technology. Using Martin Cleaver's WikiCrawler to find wikis, seeded by SwitchWiki's list of wikis, we use Bayle Shank's WikiGateway to import data, into Sunir Shah's MetaWiki, which crawls for new wikis via the InterMap, and then is used to support (facilitator): * SisterSites (John Abbe) * SwitchWiki (Mark Dilley) * SharedAntiSpam (Eugene Eric Kim) Here are an initial three proposed standards I've put on the table to make this easier http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?AllPages http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterMap#Standard http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?LinkDatabase They are of course open to discussion, improvement, and help in the Meatball way. I will be making MetaWiki open source and providing access for others to add new statistical processes to the engine. The objectives of the stack are to provide some common resource that will encourage communication amongst wiki leaders. Right now there is no intrinsic reason for us to talk to each other aside from spam. That being recognized, using MetaWiki to discover and assess more blacklist feeds into the pool will be a good motivator to get the ball rolling. Best, Sunir |