I've got yet another suggestion concerning Word-documents. Don't let them be uploaded into your wiki at all, but use a central shared folder(-structure) and link to the documents from your wiki using the filelink-extension.
That's what we are doing and (afaik) it's working well. :-) The shared folderstructure was already in existence and use when we decided to use a wiki as a central starting point to all the different information in our library with its four locations. Some things are much better suited for putting into a word-document, requiring extensive and in-depth formatting that is impossible or at least very difficult to do inside a wiki-text. Good luck! Katharina Chris Reigrut schrieb am 29.04.2009 05:52: > We've seen the same basic tendencies of our users to stick with what > they know, which is Office documents. Yes, we much prefer it if people > use a real wiki page, especially for Word documents, but frankly, I > don't get all that bent out of shape about it--I'll mention it to people > if it comes up, but I don't go out of my way to find people uploading > those documents and trying to "convert" them. And it does make sense in > some occasions: as you've mentioned, forms, final documents, but > certainly for spreadsheets, presentations, etc. As someone else > mentioned, keeping a Word document up-to-date is quite a pain, and I've > found that people tend to migrate to wikitext after the first few > iterations. We actually have extended the search engine to > automatically index the text in common types of attachments so that they > are searchable. > > Personally, I've found that the lower-key approach works better, but > your mileage may vary. > > [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 2 >> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:06:48 -0600 >> From: "McHale, Nina" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word >> To: "[email protected]" >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <3354e9b491d9ea47a1db89bf983763636700777...@steamboat.ucdenver.pvt> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> 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 >> -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katharina Wolkwitz Fachhochschule Südwestfalen Hochschulbibliothek Haldener Straße 182 58095 Hagen Tel.: 02331/9330-607 FAX: 02331/9330-608 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
