https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43154

--- Comment #4 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---
We don't allow open/libre office formats on commons at the moment. 

Problems with this:
*Commons doesn't allow office formats, free or otherwise [Primary problem. Part
of this is historical with security issues in zip based formats, but
nonetheless the politics of allowing this type of format needs to be sorted
out]
*Conversion programs aren't perfect [unless things have been improved
significantly]. Its one thing to tell a user to convert and they do it
imperfectly, when we do conversions wrong, people yell at us.


As for conversion programs, there are command line converters to (wvConvert and
stuff). I'd personally be opposed to depending on a third party, 

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This should possibly be moved to an extension requests. I am almost certain we
won't be doing office format conversions in core.

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