I have updated the Extension feature ideas page (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_feature_ideas) to suggest the following extension for Open Office. I would like to know who (if anyone) would be interested in coding such a tool (alone or as a team effort with any developers from my camp).
-Marc Feickert 1. Separate Text-To-Wikitext Converter OpenOffice has the best tool for converting formatted text into wikitext. It helps create a "zero-training" environment where less advanced users can create text in a word processor of choice and paste it into the wiki or convert existing docs to use in the wiki. However, these users are unable or unwilling to download the entire OpenOffice suite to take advantage of the conversion feature, and thus require a simpler method. A separate text-to-wikitext converter could be designed in one of the following ways: o As an extension that can be installed on MediaWiki - provides a pop-up for a user to paste text, which then converts it and places it in the editing window. o As a tool packaged separately from the OpenOffice suite - runs as a split-pane window in which a uaser may paste text into one pane, convert it, and then copy it form the second pane and paste it into the wiki editing window. NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
