Hi all, For folk who want to experiment and use Open Office for exporting wiki syntax, WE have a tutorial over here:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Editing_using_open_office Its great for helping with tables --- there is much room for improvement in MW's table syntax ;-) Over at the WikiMedia Foundation, the usability initiative are doing impressive work on refining the usablity of Mediawiki. You can read more about this here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/17/lets-tango/ Its great that we use the Mediawiki software engine :-) We'll all benefit from usability enhancements. The OERF will also be collaborating with the Ministry of Education on usability improvements -- so lots of exciting things happening on this front. A significant advantage of free software --- we're can all collaborate on building a better future for OER. Cheers Wayne Cheers Wayne On Jul 29, 7:15 am, Gita Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Randy > This is very useful information. > Warm regards > Gita > > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:10 -0700, Randy Fisher wrote: > > > Hi Gita, > > > Thanks - I know about this...it works sort of OK for text, but when > > there's tables and more complex heading structure, it doesn't work. > > > What does work, is a straight export to Mediawiki, and then a copy and > > paste.... > > > - Randy > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Gita Mathur <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Hi Randy > > I download Google Docs files to my Ubuntu desktop as .odt, > > then open the > > file on my computer, select the contents, select-copy them & > > the > > directly paste in Edit mode on my userpage in WikiEducator. It > > simply > > works! > > warm wishes > > Gita > > - > > Dr. Gita Mathur <[email protected]> > > Associate Professor of Botany > > Gargi College (University of Delhi) > > Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 > > skype:gitamathur > > > Web: > > http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur > > http://wikieducator.org/India > > http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur > > http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 > > http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 > > > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 11:35 -0700, Randy Fisher wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've been using Google Docs to "download" MS Word documents > > straight > > > into Open Office. (There's a conversion feature that > > downloads docs > > > into pdf, html, text and word. > > > > If there was an option to do it directly from Google Docs > > into > > > Mediawiki syntax, that would be great. > > > > Does anyone have ideas about how to go about this - pitching > > to Google > > > that it's in their interest to do enable this functionality? > > > > It would save lots of time.... BTW: I've noticed you tend to > > need a > > > fair bit of RAM to convert larger documents from Open Office > > directly > > > into mediawiki syntax, and if Google could do it for us, so > > much the > > > better. > > > > PS. I've documented the uploading process - > > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media/Uploading_Content > > > > - Randy > > > -- > > > ________________ > > > Randy Fisher MA, OMD > > > > * Change Management, Learning & Performance > > > * Stakeholder Engagement, Virtual Collaboration & > > Communities of > > > Practice > > > * Organization Design & Development > > > * Coaching & Facilitation > > > * E-Learning > > > > + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) > > > [email protected] > > > >http://www.wikieducator.org- Member, WikiEducator Community > > Council > > >http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher > > > > Skype: wikirandy > > > > "Open Education is a Sustainable & Renewable Resource. > > > -- > > ________________ > > Randy Fisher MA, OMD > > > * Change Management, Learning & Performance > > * Stakeholder Engagement, Virtual Collaboration & Communities of > > Practice > > * Organization Design & Development > > * Coaching & Facilitation > > * E-Learning > > > + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) > > [email protected] > > >http://www.wikieducator.org- Member, WikiEducator Community Council > >http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher > > > Skype: wikirandy > > > "Open Education is a Sustainable & Renewable Resource. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
